bug#43117: [PATCH] Add .git-blame-ignore-revs file

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> We already mark such commits with a leading semi-colon.  Will this
> file simply repeat those commits?

Yes, if we want the commits ignored by "git blame".  But of course it
could include only some of them, as well as commits not marked with a
leading semi-colon.

>> > And what should be done about it while merging from the release branch
>> > to master?
>>
>> I don't think anything in particular needs doing, since the sha-1 will
>> stay the same after a merge.  Or am I missing something?
>
> Not all of the commits get merged.  Some are skipped.

Wouldn't having non-existent commit ids in there mostly be an aesthetic
problem?