.gitattributes Export-Ignore Audit

Ensure the WordPress.org release archive (git archive output) contains only runtime files. Dev tooling, tests, CI, and repo meta must be export-ignored.

Why This Matters

The WordPress.org zip is built via git archive. Anything without export-ignore ends up on every user's site, bloating the install and shipping dev-only code. Equally bad: stale export-ignore entries for files that no longer exist look tidy but protect nothing.

Quick Audit (one command)

# Entries in the release archive at the repository root
git archive --format=tar HEAD | tar -t | awk -F/ '{print $1}' | sort -u

# Same, but uses the working-tree .gitattributes (use while iterating on edits)
git archive --worktree-attributes --format=tar HEAD | tar -t | awk -F/ '{print $1}' | sort -u

git archive HEAD reads .gitattributes from the commit, so uncommitted fixes won't show up. Use --worktree-attributes to preview a pending change before committing.