From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:54:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature request: automatically read .git-blame-ignore-revs or allow global optional config
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On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM Michael Grosser
<grosser.michael@gmail.com> wrote:>
> I have many repos where I use .git-blame-ignore-revs,
> but I cannot set it globally because then I get
> ```
> fatal: could not open object name list: .git-blame-ignore-revs
> ```
> so please make it either the default for `git blame` to check that file,
> or add a "blame: ignoreMissingFile: true" option so I an set
> ```
> [blame]
>   ignoreRevsFile = .git-blame-ignore-revs
>   ignoreMissingFile: true
> ```
> and can use this feature without constantly having to think about it

Relevant threads:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1947.git.git.1745088194384.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/T/#u
https://lore.kernel.org/git/20241014204427.1712182-1-gitster@pobox.com/T/#u