diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c
index e407a22da3bacf..956520edcd9a13 100644
--- a/builtin/blame.c
+++ b/builtin/blame.c
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ static int coloring_mode;
 static struct string_list ignore_revs_file_list = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP;
 static int mark_unblamable_lines;
 static int mark_ignored_lines;
+static int override_ignore_revs = 0;
 
 static struct date_mode blame_date_mode = { DATE_ISO8601 };
 static size_t blame_date_width;
@@ -901,6 +902,7 @@ int cmd_blame(int argc,
 		OPT_BIT('w', NULL, &xdl_opts, N_("ignore whitespace differences"), XDF_IGNORE_WHITESPACE),
 		OPT_STRING_LIST(0, "ignore-rev", &ignore_rev_list, N_("rev"), N_("ignore <rev> when blaming")),
 		OPT_STRING_LIST(0, "ignore-revs-file", &ignore_revs_file_list, N_("file"), N_("ignore revisions from <file>")),
+		OPT_BOOL('O', "override-ignore-revs", &override_ignore_revs, N_("override all configurations that exclude revisions")),
 		OPT_BIT(0, "color-lines", &output_option, N_("color redundant metadata from previous line differently"), OUTPUT_COLOR_LINE),
 		OPT_BIT(0, "color-by-age", &output_option, N_("color lines by age"), OUTPUT_SHOW_AGE_WITH_COLOR),
 		OPT_BIT(0, "minimal", &xdl_opts, N_("spend extra cycles to find better match"), XDF_NEED_MINIMAL),
@@ -1105,13 +1107,25 @@ int cmd_blame(int argc,
 		add_pending_object(&revs, &head_commit->object, "HEAD");
 	}
 
+	/*
+	* By default, add .git-blame-ignore-revs to the list of files
+	* containing revisions to ignore if it exists.
+	*/
+	if (access(".git-blame-ignore-revs", F_OK) == 0) {
+		string_list_append(&ignore_revs_file_list, ".git-blame-ignore-revs");
+	}
+
 	init_scoreboard(&sb);
 	sb.revs = &revs;
 	sb.contents_from = contents_from;
 	sb.reverse = reverse;
 	sb.repo = the_repository;
 	sb.path = path;
-	build_ignorelist(&sb, &ignore_revs_file_list, &ignore_rev_list);
+
+	if (!override_ignore_revs) {
+		build_ignorelist(&sb, &ignore_revs_file_list, &ignore_rev_list);
+	}
+
 	string_list_clear(&ignore_revs_file_list, 0);
 	string_list_clear(&ignore_rev_list, 0);
 	setup_scoreboard(&sb, &o);
diff --git a/t/t8015-blame-default-ignore-revs.sh b/t/t8015-blame-default-ignore-revs.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000000..d4ab686f14d2ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t8015-blame-default-ignore-revs.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='default revisions to ignore when blaming'
+
+TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+test_expect_success 'blame: default-ignore-revs-file' '
+    test_commit first-commit hello.txt hello &&
+
+    echo world >>hello.txt &&
+    test_commit second-commit hello.txt &&
+
+    sed "1s/hello/hi/" <hello.txt > hello.txt.tmp &&
+    mv hello.txt.tmp hello.txt &&
+    test_commit third-commit hello.txt &&
+
+    git rev-parse HEAD >ignored-file &&
+    git blame --ignore-revs-file=ignored-file hello.txt >expect &&
+    git rev-parse HEAD >.git-blame-ignore-revs &&
+    git blame hello.txt >actual &&
+
+    test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_done
diff --git a/t/t8016-blame-override-ignore-revs.sh b/t/t8016-blame-override-ignore-revs.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000000..b5899729f8e08d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t8016-blame-override-ignore-revs.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='default revisions to ignore when blaming'
+
+TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+test_expect_success 'blame: override-ignore-revs' '
+    test_commit first-commit hello.txt hello &&
+
+    echo world >>hello.txt &&
+    test_commit second-commit hello.txt &&
+
+    sed "1s/hello/hi/" <hello.txt > hello.txt.tmp &&
+    mv hello.txt.tmp hello.txt &&
+    test_commit third-commit hello.txt &&
+
+    git blame hello.txt >expect &&
+    git rev-parse HEAD >.git-blame-ignore-revs &&
+    git blame -O hello.txt >actual &&
+
+    test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_done