chore: exclude repo-only files from the source archive - #3197
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The release tarball is built with git archive and ships .asf.yaml, .devcontainer, .github, .gitignore, .gitattributes, and .idea, none of which are needed to build, test, or verify from source. Ryan raised this in the 0.2.0 vote and Kurtis called out .idea in the 0.9.1 vote. Files the verification scripts rely on (.licenserc.yaml, lint configs, dev/) stay in. Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> (cherry picked from commit d6c2eb4)
`.github export-ignore` (apache#3189) hides `.github/actions` from repository archives. GitHub resolves the `uses: ./...` self-repository references by fetching such an archive, so every workflow that uses a local composite action fails at action resolution: Can't find 'action.yml', 'action.yaml' or 'Dockerfile' for action 'apache/iceberg-rust/.github/actions/setup-builder@<sha>' List the .github entries individually instead, so the repo-only files apache#3189 targeted stay out of the release tarball while `.github/actions` remains resolvable. A `-export-ignore` negation on the subdirectory does not work: git does not descend into an export-ignored directory. (cherry picked from commit 6f062aa)
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Which issue does this PR close?
Backports two changes from
main(#3189, #3193) to remove unecessary files fromgit archive, used in the release process.Related: #3034
What changes are included in this PR?
This change adds new entries to the
.gitattributesfile to exclude them whengit archiveis run.Are these changes tested?
N/A
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