From 7e293acce3e66cd5292051119706e1a34b248092 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 13:38:04 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Exclude from source archives files specific to Git work tree

Add the "export-ignore" attribute to all such files.  Remove the
suggestion from the README since this should not be a responsibility
of the including project.
---
 .gitattributes | 3 +++
 README         | 7 -------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 51d63be74..facbbb21c 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 .git*            export-ignore
 
+# Exclude from source archives files specific to Git work tree.
+*                export-ignore
+
 tips             eol=lf         whitespace=indent-with-non-tab
 setup-*          eol=lf         whitespace=indent-with-non-tab
diff --git a/README b/README
index 2f9f1ec07..cf468fb68 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -37,13 +37,6 @@ Commit the merge with an informative message:
  the general GitSetup repository "setup" branch.
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-Optionally add to the project ".gitattributes" file the line
-
- /Utilities/GitSetup export-ignore
-
-to exclude the GitSetup directory from inclusion by "git archive"
-since it does not make sense in source tarballs.
-
 
 Configuration
 -------------