ignore "maintenance" user

[KrisThielemans]

ignore "maintenance" user

[casperdcl]

I think you're talking about https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/working-with-files/using-files/viewing-a-file#ignore-commits-in-the-blame-view :)

PS I tend to use --author "github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>"

[KrisThielemans]

Sorry @casperdcl can you be more explicit?

The git blame doc refers to fsck.skipList for the format, which says

The path to a list of object names (i.e. one unabbreviated SHA-1 per line) that are known to be broken in a non-fatal way and should be ignored.

I've optimistically tried to add --author="stir_maintenance <[email protected]>" to .git-blame-ignore-revs and do

 git blame --ignore-revs-file .git-blame-ignore-revs some_filename

That gives

fatal: invalid object name: --author="stir_maintenance <[email protected]>"

I could imagine creating a script that uses git log to find all hashes from this user to update this file, but that could easily become quite large if we'd run a bot that changes code.

Even if I manage that, I don't know how to pass this to git fame. Maybe by setting blame.ignoreRevsFile?

thanks!

[casperdcl]

Sorry for the confusion - I was referring to two different things.

• manually using --author when committing bot-like things
• .git-blame-ignore-revs (via git fame --ignore-revs-file or git config --local --add blame.ignoreRevsFile) which unfortunately can only contain revisons not authors, so is only intended for infrequent large-scale formatting

I haven't seen any elegant solutions for cases like pre-commit.ci[bot] autofixing lots of external PRs on very active projects.