The PreTeXt Guide

The command git blame is simultaneously funny, useful, and powerful. A line of code you do not understand can be traced back to its originating commit. We maintain a list of commits (in .git-blame-ignore-revs) that have no real new code and make just cosmetic changes, so you may want to use this feature. To use:

git blame --ignore-revs-file .git-blame-ignore-revs birds.xml

You can also make this happen every time with a local configuration change, to wit:

git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs