Note: this file uses “.git” named files as placeholders, that are part of “default excludes” in plexus-utils. Before, this IT used “.gitattributes” file, but it was removed from set of default excludes by this commit: https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/commit/e8a8433894eae9e8f82cbba4b903508362e9322a