diff --git a/.git-blame-ignore-revs b/.git-blame-ignore-revs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..78ed208
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.git-blame-ignore-revs
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# 8 space tabs changes
+e2e76c34b4eb027eec44bf0ab81523c4359aa6a3
+ea2b9c835770b5c7f270cac69a20213de5cf97df
diff --git a/scripts/one-time-setup.sh b/scripts/one-time-setup.sh
index 3bc4e55..90eca18 100755
--- a/scripts/one-time-setup.sh
+++ b/scripts/one-time-setup.sh
@@ -11,3 +11,9 @@
 	echo Error: you need to set AKAROS_ROOT
 	exit -1
 fi
+
+# This feature may not be upstream yet - you can use brho's git if it isn't.
+# This tells blame to ignore certain commits know to be uninteresting.
+
+git config --local --replace-all blame.ignorerevsfile .git-blame-ignore-revs
+git config --local --replace-all blame.markignoredlines true