Prevent merge of .asf.yaml control file
diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6f456b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitattributes
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+# Don't merge the ASF config file, which has details about THIS branch:
+.asf.yaml merge=ours