diff --git a/.git-blame-ignore-revs b/.git-blame-ignore-revs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..beb7b28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.git-blame-ignore-revs
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# trivial: apply black
+d37357188d49b5f7db11bc8e487caf620a666a85
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a14705c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# See https://pre-commit.com for more information
+# See https://pre-commit.com/hooks.html for more hooks
+repos:
+-   repo: https://github.com/psf/black
+    rev: 20.8b1
+    hooks:
+    - id: black
+      args: ['--target-version', 'py37', '--skip-string-normalization', '--line-length', '110']
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 02c9ff7..0ce019f 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -42,6 +42,16 @@ Note that the SSH host key verification will fail unless the proper
 known_hosts file has been installed, or created by manually connecting
 to the git server.
 
+Code Style
+----------
+
+black is used to format the code, using thoses parameters:
+
+    black --target-version py37 --skip-string-normalization --line-length 110
+
+There is .pre-commit-config.yaml to use pre-commit to automatically run black
+before commits. (execute `pre-commit install` to install the git hook.)
+
 Packaging
 ---------