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by OJFord 1598 days ago
Does the user matter? As long as the commit message is something sensible like 'Autoformat with black' it can be easily ignored when seen, and you can avoid seeing it with blame as simonw suggests.
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mynegation 1598 days ago
The problem is that this revision will override all the previous ones in the “blame” output so it needs to be explicitly ignored. See a great link elsewhere in the thread on how to deal with that in newer versions of git.
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OJFord 1598 days ago
Yes, as I said?

My point was that the user doesn't matter (vs. anything else about the commit) to me in any context that I see it.

And then I mentioned without reiterating the advice about hiding the commit from blame just as you did.

In any context where I see "OJFord committed 'Autoformat with black'" for this, it's not 'OJFord' that's the problem IMO.

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adamrt 1598 days ago
Git blame has a feature just for this `git blame -w -M`. -w ignores white space changes and -M isn't really necessary but will ignore moved lines
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