From 373e87edaae027acf4869540daa8467007f89aac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew de Detrich <matthew.dedetrich@aiven.io>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 11:32:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add documentation for git blame on ignoring formatting
 commits

---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 302760f226..6cf9eb2788 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -417,6 +417,16 @@ Enable Travis CI #1
 * Details 3
 ```
 
+### Ignoring formatting commits in git blame
+
+Throughout the history of the codebase various formatting commits have been applied as the scalafmt style has evolved over time, if desired
+one can setup git blame to ignore these commits. The hashes for these specific are stored in [this file](.git-blame-ignore-revs) so to configure
+git blame to ignore these commits you can execute the following.
+
+```shell
+git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs
+```
+
 ### Pull request validation workflow details
 
 Akka uses GitHub Actions to validate pull requests, which involves checking code style, run tests, check binary compatibility, etc.