Side By Side diff view is not aligned correctly

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Summary

When using the MR side-by-side changes view it sometimes does not align correctly for certain changes.

This is the view observed in the GitLab MR:

This is what VSCode displays for the same diff:

Steps to reproduce

Example Project

What is the current bug behavior?

The alignment of the side by side view makes it difficult to compare the changes.

What is the expected correct behavior?

The lines should be aligned similar to how IDEs handle this.

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

Output of checks

Results of GitLab environment info

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(For installations with omnibus-gitlab package run and paste the output of:
`sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:env:info`)

(For installations from source run and paste the output of:
`sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:env:info RAILS_ENV=production`)

Results of GitLab application Check

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(For installations with omnibus-gitlab package run and paste the output of:
sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:check SANITIZE=true)
(For installations from source run and paste the output of:
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:check RAILS_ENV=production SANITIZE=true)
(we will only investigate if the tests are passing)

Possible fixes