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On 3/15/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > (That, however, works only if you do not want something like "git diff
> > > -w"...)
> >
> > Why? Can't "git diff -w" quit early?
>
> No, but "-w" means "ignore white space", which means that blobs can be
> deemed equal, even if they differ at the byte-per-byte level.
>

So it can leave early as soon as it found a difference on byte level
and the difference is not white space, can't it?