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To some extent this can be addressed with `--ignore-revs-file`: https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-blame#Documentation/git-bla...

An example: https://www.moxio.com/blog/43/ignoring-bulk-change-commits-w...

Some code formatters such as Spotless (https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/tree/main/plugin-gradle...) allow you to format code only in files that have changes against some designated branch such as `master`. So, you check out your feature branch, make changes, do some commits, and run spotless. Only the files which have some changes between your workspace and the master branch will be formatted. This allows you to gradually format the project as and when files would be changed anyways.

convert code to sexprs, diff the tree, track those changes not the text on a 2d grid