Wishlist: .git blame ignore revs
One concern people have about taking spelling fixes (or whitespace cleanup for that matter) is that blame is shifted (potentially for large swaths of the codebase) to a drive-by contributor.
It's actually possible to partially address this with the introduction of a file.
Consensus for the filename appears to be .git-blame-ignore-revs:
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Docs: Support in GitHub for
.git-blame-ignore-revs(since March 2022) - Rob Allen: Ignoring mass reformatting commits with git blame
- Moxio: Ignoring bulk change commits with git blame
- Used in Chromium
- Request to support in GitLab
This isn't something that a cleanup PR itself should include, because it's reliant on the final commit-refs which aren't known until the PR is merged (especially if a project rebases, but also it'd be painful to maintain while responding to reviews).
But it shouldn't be particularly hard to write a bot which given a bunch of GitHub (or GitLab) PRs (or commits) generated a PR (or just a commit) to update the file.
It seems like a pretty neat small project, which someone could/should do.