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Differential D67145

Add .git-blame-ignore-revs file
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Authored by ruiu on Sep 3 2019, 11:55 PM.

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Reviewers
MaskRay
Commits
rG17de54529384: Add .git-blame-ignore-revs file
rL370855: Add .git-blame-ignore-revs file
Summary

This new file is intended to be used to list sweeping changes
such as mass reformatting or renaming. You can configure git-blame
so that the command ignores commits listed in this file.

The initial contents of this file is two commit hashes which did
mass renaming to the lld directory.

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Repository
rL LLVM

Event Timeline

ruiu created this revision.Sep 3 2019, 11:55 PM
Herald added a project: Restricted Project. · View Herald TranscriptSep 3 2019, 11:55 PM
Harbormaster completed remote builds in B37693: Diff 218597.Sep 3 2019, 11:56 PM
MaskRay added inline comments.Sep 4 2019, 1:46 AM
.git-blame-ignore-revs
11 ↗(On Diff #218597)

I currently use .git/blame. Is .git-blame-ignore-revs recognized by default as well?

You may add comments beside commit ids to mark the revision numbers, and probably titles.

ruiu marked an inline comment as done.Sep 4 2019, 1:51 AM
ruiu added inline comments.
.git-blame-ignore-revs
11 ↗(On Diff #218597)

No, git blame doesn't use any file by default. I borrowed this filename from git-hyper-blame, which is a 3rd party extension that implements the feature before git blame acquires this feature last month.

ruiu updated this revision to Diff 218612.Sep 4 2019, 1:54 AM
  • add a comment to each commit
Harbormaster completed remote builds in B37699: Diff 218612.Sep 4 2019, 1:54 AM
MaskRay accepted this revision.Sep 4 2019, 2:06 AM
MaskRay added inline comments.
.git-blame-ignore-revs
11 ↗(On Diff #218597)

It looks this file has been adopted by several projects: firefox, chrome, etc. This is nice.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 4 2019, 2:06 AM
Closed by commit rL370855: Add .git-blame-ignore-revs file (authored by ruiu). · Explain WhySep 4 2019, 2:14 AM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.

Revision Contents

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monorepo-root/trunk/.git-blame-ignore-revs

# Since version 2.23 (released in August 2019), git-blame has a feature
# to ignore or bypass certain commits.
#
# This file contains a list of commits that are not likely what you
# are looking for in a blame, such as mass reformatting or renaming.
# You can set this file as a default ignore file for blame by running
# the following command.
#
# $ git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs
# r365730: [Coding style change][lld] Rename variables for non-ELF ports
136d27ab4de0c1d5dedfecc32a9857be78fa0648
# r365595: [Coding style change] Rename variables so that they start with a lowercase letter
3837f4273fcc40cc519035479aefe78e5cbd3055