I Hate GitHub White Space

Name: I Hate GitHub White Space
Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Author: Hunter Ham Digital

Automatically adds the hide white space filter to the GitHub diff view.

As of May 2026, I Hate GitHub White Space has 12 users and a 5.00/5 rating from 4 reviews in the Workflow & Planning category.

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4 reviews

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Version

1.2

Manifest V3

History

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Tracking since May 28, 2026.

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Date	Users	Rating	Reviews	Version
May 28, 2026	16	5.00	4	1.2
Now	12	5.00	4	1.2

Permissions & access

Permissions: None declared
Host access: https://github.com/*

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About

GitHub's website doesn't have a way to persist their "hide white space" setting in the code diff view. This slows down workflow when reviewing code changes.

This applies to...
1. Pull Request file diffs pages
2. Commit diffs pages

The extension detects if the white space setting is toggled by checking for the `w` in the URL query/search parameters. If the query param is not set to anything, the extension adds w=1 (hide white space).

By checking for the existence of the `w` param, it will allow users to have w=0 on purpose if they want to purposely show white space.

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There is an existing extension for this, however, I believe they're not secure enough. My extension only uses a Chrome content script (scripts that only run in the context of one tab/page) and is limited only to https://github.com/*

The URL check function runs when you navigate to a page on github.com and when the URL changes within the current page.

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GitHub Repo: https://github.com/hmh84/i-hate-github-whitespace
Issues and Feature Requests: https://github.com/hmh84/i-hate-github-whitespace/issues