How do I run a code formatter over my source without modifying git history?

Question

I am trying to format an entire repo using a code formatter tool. In doing so, I want to keep information about who committed which line, so that commands like git bla

Answer 1

Mercurial has an (experimental) option for this, "--skip":

--skip 
    revision to not display (EXPERIMENTAL)

I think there is no equivalent yet in default git, but there is a hyper-blame command developed externally.

A similar option (--ignore-rev and --ignore-revs-file is available in git since 2.23: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-blame#Documentation/git-blame.txt---ignore-revltrevgt.

In my experience, both don't deal really well with formatting changes, especially when multiple lines are folded into one.