From 914380cb89d7cf5e9c186055753ff12bbcf6296a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stijn
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 10:29:17 +0100
Subject: all: Add .git-blame-ignore-revs for fixing up git blame output.

Add most formatting-only commits to this file so that when used with
git blame, these commits are excluded and the output shows only the
interesting bits.
---
 docs/develop/gettingstarted.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'docs')

diff --git a/docs/develop/gettingstarted.rst b/docs/develop/gettingstarted.rst
index 32435ebe1..30b26071e 100644
--- a/docs/develop/gettingstarted.rst
+++ b/docs/develop/gettingstarted.rst
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ of Git for your operating system to follow through the rest of the steps.
    Learn about the basic git commands in this `Git Handbook <https://guides.github.com/introduction/git-handbook/>`_
    or any other sources on the internet.
 
+.. note::
+   A .git-blame-ignore-revs file is included which avoids the output of git blame getting cluttered
+   by commits which are only for formatting code but have no functional changes. See `git blame documentation
+   <https://git-scm.com/docs/git-blame#Documentation/git-blame.txt---ignore-revltrevgt>`_ on how to use this.
+
 Get the code
 ------------
 
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