diff --git a/.git-blame-ignore-revs b/.git-blame-ignore-revs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1d0306afd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.git-blame-ignore-revs
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Introduce end-of-line normalization (#913)
+de38a5bb9559a4acb14317a9038ce8267c432c03
+
+# Initial GitHub actions for linting (#954)
+675d12b07b1c7f93c2bce9da29790cf364d52505
+
+# apply consistent multi-line string formatting (#1166)
+2912b1dfc3fbfc926128702f222b7b1ca9f15c6c
+
+# use f-strings to format str (#1212)
+5d4324ddb6ed5abad231295d63e28cdf779e5e07
+
+# consistently use relative imports (#1330)
+16b84e8e7933b98c63eaa4fbeb47f6e28a45d611
+
+# switch to ruff, ignore known test warnings, numpy compat fixes (#2124)
+b142b081516e6ac78e426257c7472dd4a9994b89
+
+# reformat codebase with longer line length (#2362)
+12a3bcd1ba8b229e00e2da8a448e7866c16fdb29
diff --git a/DEVELOPER.md b/DEVELOPER.md
index eebaf78d5..274545047 100644
--- a/DEVELOPER.md
+++ b/DEVELOPER.md
@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ To develop FloPy you must have the following software installed on your machine:
 You will need [Git](https://git-scm.com) and/or the **GitHub app** (for [Mac](https://mac.github.com) or [Windows](https://windows.github.com)).
 GitHub's  [Guide to Installing Git](https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git) is a good source of information.
 
+Optionally, the [`git blame`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-blame) tool can be configured to work locally using:
+
+```shell
+git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs
+```
+
 ### Python
 
 FloPy supports several recent versions of Python, loosely following [NEP 29](https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0029-deprecation_policy.html#implementation).
@@ -415,4 +421,4 @@ For a script in a subdirectory of the root, for instance, the conventional appro
 
 ```Python
 project_root_path = Path(__file__).parent.parent
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```