From ebe7411b3b54023d7610ad86faab6936485f7f18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 14:39:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] MAINT: avoid warnings because of symlinks pointing outside
 repo

---
 .gitattributes | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .gitattributes

diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9c3e24ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 The meson-python developers
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+# These test files contain symlinks to outside the repo (hence invalid - on
+# purpose) so exclude them to prevent warnings. See gh-728 for context.
+tests/packages/symlinks/baz.py export-ignore
+tests/packages/symlinks/qux.py export-ignore