Remove .git* from generated archives

GitHub allows to download archives for each tag. They use git archive for that. By specifying a pattern in .gitattributes, we can remove specific stuff from the generated archives.
isaqb-org · Jan 12, 2021 · 8d7d7ed · 8d7d7ed
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+# exclude .gitignore, CI config and similar from the generated tarball
+.git*           export-ignore