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