Re: Flag day for simplified package inputs

[Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org>]

Hello there,

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 :).