Can someone who works on GitHub explain why "Hide whitespace" doesn't persist?

4 pointsstravant1y ago1 comments

Rant time, how is it still not possible to persist the "Hide Whitespace" setting between PRs? It already has a checkbox... which saves for a single PR... but DOESN'T SAVE BETWEEN PRs??

Developers have been LITERALLY SCREAMING into the void at the top of their lungs for a practically a decade at this point asking for this functionality.

* Official feedback threads: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/5486#discussioncomment-11719051, https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/65597

* Multiple StackOverflow questions such as: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37007300/how-to-ignore-whitespace-in-github-when-comparing

* Chrome and Firefox extensions to fix the problem: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/github-whitespace/fnpkdafamnbjoldglihkjjdicofghccm?pli=1

* And many more.

I've literally not met a single developer who likes the behavior. I've seen in person several dozen different peers clicking that stupid checkbox when opening PRs. It seems pretty apparent that this issue is a scourge on the entire development community using Github.

I'm sure that some people who work on Github browse this site, so shot in the dark: Could you please offer some context, insight... ANYTHING about why this issue is still a thing?

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uncomplexity_1y ago

marking this as "wontfix"

we are currently focused on the ai

sincerely,

sotya nutella

p.s. im also a dev with a lot of complaints on gh actions >.< haha

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