added comments to explain why we have the .gitattirbutes file with `e…

…xport-ignore` defined for some dirs/files
BusKill · Dec 27, 2022 · 2d4c7bb · 2d4c7bb
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+# remove some files from `git archive` to strip the "Source code" archives
+# created by GitHub on the "Release" page from including binary blobs and/or
+# other unnecessary files for building BusKill from source. See also:
+# 
+# * https://github.com/BusKill/buskill-app/issues/31#issuecomment-1365570844
+# * https://github.com/BusKill/buskill-app/issues/53#issuecomment-1366041678
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 .gitattributes export-ignore
 .github export-ignore
 .gitignore export-ignore