Ignoring whitespace in summary window

[marlun]

When removing a parent element in HTML which changes the indentation for a whole section, git shows the whole section as chaning. However if I add -w it shows a diff which is much easier to understand in this case. When Doing :G and showing the status window, moving to such file and hit = to show the diff, can I somehow make it ignore whitespace? I tried adding iwhiteall to diffopt but that did not seem to help.

[tpope]

Not possible, because those diffs are load bearing: The ability to partially stage a change hinges on the ability to patch part of a diff to git apply, and a diff that's ignoring whitespace doesn't contain enough information to serve as a patch.