Re: Flag day for simplified package inputs

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org> skribis:
>>
>>> When applying this and future bulk changes, could we perhaps list the
>>> specific commits (+ commented shortlog line) in a file. To clarify, if
>>> we were to store these commits in `.git-blame-ignore-revs', later on we
>>> can instruct users to run:
>>>
>>> git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs
>>>
>>> to ignore the bulk change for git blame purposes.
>>
>> Sounds like a good idea.  There’s no particular convention regarding the
>> file name of ‘.git-blame-ignore-revs’, right?
>
> As far as I know there is no established convention, although after
> searching around a bit I found that Sarah Morgensen proposed the exact
> same thing in September. It seems the chromium project also follows the
> same naming scheme, so we won't be totally idiosyncratic at least :).

Good.  :-)  Could you (or Sarah?) propose a patch, including a sentence
or two in the manual with the ‘git config’ snippet?

Thanks,
Ludo’.