diff --git a/.git-blame-ignore-revs b/.git-blame-ignore-revs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7189915d71c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.git-blame-ignore-revs
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Run this command to always ignore formatting commits in `git blame`
+# git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs
+
+# Applied black to the codebase
+7dadc107cebd3ab4597f1aa4f159940872466dec
+
+# Reformatted all frontend code using prettier v3
+3bc7b5df66ddae02b50d801539333113d26b87b7
diff --git a/docs/getting_started.rst b/docs/getting_started.rst
index 58ccf67a53f..351777bd9e2 100644
--- a/docs/getting_started.rst
+++ b/docs/getting_started.rst
@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ Next, initialize Git LFS:
   cd kolibri  # Enter the Kolibri directory
   git lfs install
 
+To make git blame more informative, we keep track of commits that make a lot of changes to the codebase but are not directly related to the code itself, like large scale automatic code formatting. To prevent these commits appearing in the blame output, run:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+  git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs
+
 Finally, add the Learning Equality repo as a remote called `upstream`. That way you can keep your local checkout updated with the most recent changes: