git: change styling (whitespace) without changing ownership/blame?

Question

We have a massive, ancient codebase that needs a lot of cleanup. We have always had coding standards and everyone has always tried to follow them, but they were not enforced

Answer 1

For those using the VCS annotations feature in JetBrains IDEs to see the git blame output, you can set the -w (ignore whitespace), -M (detect moved or copied lines within a file) and -C (detect moved or copied lines across files) flags as follows:

Configure annotation options

• Right-click the annotations gutter and select Options from the context menu

Source: IntelliJ docs