this excludes the .gitignore file from the generated tarball (as can be downloaded via github; or produced via git archive).
it also excludes .gitattributes, or really anything that matches .git*.
since the generated tarballs lack the .git directory, these files are useless at best (and harmful in a few cases).
this excludes the
.gitignore
file from the generated tarball (as can be downloaded via github; or produced viagit archive
). it also excludes.gitattributes
, or really anything that matches.git*
.since the generated tarballs lack the
.git
directory, these files are useless at best (and harmful in a few cases).