diff --git a/.git-blame-ignore-revs b/.git-blame-ignore-revs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c92f42724f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.git-blame-ignore-revs
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#
+# This file lists revisions that should be ignored when considering
+# attribution for the actual code written.  Code style changes should
+# not be considered as modifications with regards to attribution.
+#
+# To see clean and meaningful blame information.
+# $ git blame important.py --ignore-revs-file .git-blame-ignore-revs
+#
+# To configure git to automatically ignore revisions listed in a file on every call to git blame.
+# $ git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs
+#
+# Ignore changes introduced when doing global file format changes
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c4c37ee9497..875aeb37454 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Ignore all dotfiles...
 .*
 !.gitattributes
+!.git-blame-ignore-revs
 
 # Ignore all back-up files...
 *~