Merge branch 'main' into dependabot/github_actions/zgosalvez/github-actions-ensure-sha-pinned-actions-5.0.2

Author: mhucka

.git-blame-ignore-revs

@@ -1,2 +1,14 @@
-# migrating to the black formatter
+# Usage: run the following command to configure git to use this file:
+#
+#   git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs
+#
+# This instructs `git-blame` to ignore certain commits, such as those that only
+# involve large refactoring or reformatting operations. The format of this file
+# is one full 40-character commit hash (SHA-1) per line. Blank lines and
+# comments (such as this) are allowed.
+
+# Migrating to the black formatter.
 5cd8b96e605039af1496b6ad97ea490ef2fa7b82
+
+# Run check/format-incremental --all --apply.
+7f262ff9cc9eeb9b1b2d6a26c4acbfb7ab17063e

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -69,6 +69,18 @@ we use.
 
     where `YOUR_BRANCH_NAME` is the name of your new branch.
 
+### git configuration
+
+The following command will set up large refactoring revisions to be ignored,
+when using `git blame`:
+
+```bash
+git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs
+```
+
+Note that if you are using PyCharm, you might have to use the command _Restart
+& Invalidate Caches) to have the change be picked up.
+
 ### Development environment installation
 
 Please refer to the section _Developer install_ of the [installation