Prevent .gitignore and friends from being exported to the final archive

diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..f49e821
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# make sure that .gitignore, .travis.yml,... are not part of a
+# source-package generated via 'git archive'
+.git*          export-ignore
+/.*            export-ignore