Git 2.9.0 introduced a "compaction heuristic" option that uses blank lines as a "strong hint" in computing diff block boundaries. It would be nice to get use a similar heuristic in the VS Code diff viewer. (If it is using the git diff util behind-the-scenes, this would already work).

https://github.com/blog/2188-git-2-9-has-been-released#beautiful-diffs

• VSCode Version: 1.5.0
• OS Version: Mac OS
• Git Version: 2.9.0+