A small change to GitHub’s pull-request interface can save repeated irritation when reviewing generated code. The October 22 changelog says the Files changed page now remembers your whitespace visibility preference between pull requests. It also improves how newly added and deleted files appear in split view.
This matters in projects where formatting tools or AI-generated rewrites produce large diffs. Hiding whitespace can make a meaningful logic change easier to spot, while showing whitespace remains useful when investigating formatting regressions. Neither view should substitute for running tests or checking the actual file.
Open an existing pull request, set your preferred whitespace view, and see whether it persists on the next review. The value is modest but immediate: fewer clicks and cleaner inspection of what Cursor changed.
What to do: Set a preferred whitespace mode in Files changed on the next GitHub pull request.