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@jrmajor jrmajor commented Aug 23, 2024

When Composer installs packages from GitHub, it uses zip files created with git archive. Adding export-ignore attribute to files causes them to be excluded from git archive. I've excluded docs, tests, and other files that aren't necessary when installing this package, which reduces package size from ~21MB to ~2.7MB.

You can test this by running the following commands:

git archive master -o master.zip
git archive replace-with-this-branch-name -o gitattributes.zip

Then unzip both archives and compare their size and content.

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