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> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 23:06:55 -0400
> 
> For instance, label whitespace changes clearly in the commit log, and
> change some tools to ignore them?

The tool is Git, and it will treat any change as significant.  I'm not
aware of a Git option to ignore some changes based on the log
messages.