Pass a -w flag to git log.
The easiest way is to add an argument to the argument parser
def parseCommandLineArguments(self):
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("repo_path", help="Path to the repo of interest")
parser.add_argument("--since", help="the beginning of the time interval of interest")
parser.add_argument("--until", help="the endpoint of the time interval of interest")
parser.add_argument("-w", help="Ignore whitespace changes")
return parser.parse_args()