List paths which should be excluded from tarballs

Convert the logic (currently present in the form of "rm -rf" calls in
util/kit.sh) for removing files and directories which are tracked by Git
but redundant in release tarballs into a set of .gitattributes rules
which allow the same effect to be achieved using "git archive".

diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 9da70ba2fcdab8c6552d379deaabaf516659613a..3dac3b0fe6eeb987e361dcacf404c9c752f94fd1 100644 (file)
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,2 +1,10 @@
 *.sln.in eol=crlf
 *.vcxproj.* eol=crlf
+
+.gitignore                      export-ignore
+/conftools                      export-ignore
+/doc/design                     export-ignore
+/doc/dev                        export-ignore
+/util/**                        export-ignore
+/util/bindkeys.pl              -export-ignore
+/util/mksymtbl.pl              -export-ignore