diff --git a/contrib/git-jump/README b/contrib/git-jump/README
index 1cebc328cb..3e0b65b9b3 100644
--- a/contrib/git-jump/README
+++ b/contrib/git-jump/README
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Obviously this trivial case isn't that interesting; you could just open
 `foo.c` yourself. But when you have many changes scattered across a
 project, you can use the editor's support to "jump" from point to point.
 
-Git-jump can generate three types of interesting lists:
+Git-jump can generate four types of interesting lists:
 
   1. The beginning of any diff hunks.
 
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ Git-jump can generate three types of interesting lists:
 
   3. Any grep matches.
 
+  4. Any whitespace errors detected by `git diff --check`.
+
 
 Using git-jump
 --------------
diff --git a/contrib/git-jump/git-jump b/contrib/git-jump/git-jump
index 1f1b996be1..427f206a45 100755
--- a/contrib/git-jump/git-jump
+++ b/contrib/git-jump/git-jump
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ diff: elements are diff hunks. Arguments are given to diff.
 merge: elements are merge conflicts. Arguments are ignored.
 
 grep: elements are grep hits. Arguments are given to grep.
+
+ws: elements are whitespace errors. Arguments are given to diff --check.
 EOF
 }
 
@@ -55,6 +57,10 @@ mode_grep() {
 	'
 }
 
+mode_ws() {
+	git diff --check "$@"
+}
+
 if test $# -lt 1; then
 	usage >&2
 	exit 1