From 8f84e12218f19d5e70ce04c97701549d54e70a04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Lingo <1timlingo@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:36:54 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] chore(repo): suppress generated dist/ artifacts in diffs

dist/*.c and *.elh are elc transpiler output. CI's header-gen step still
greps dist/*.c, so they stay tracked, but a single soul change regenerates
~57k lines of dist/neuron.c + dist/soul.c that bury the real source diff and
poison both human and agent PR review. Mark them -diff + linguist-generated so
PRs show only the real changes. Build pipeline unchanged.
---
 .gitattributes | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .gitattributes

diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..be532d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# ── Generated build artifacts ────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# dist/ holds elc transpiler output (*.c, *.elh) plus the generated decls header.
+# CI consumes these (the "Generate ELP master declarations header" step greps
+# dist/*.c), so they stay TRACKED. But they are machine-generated and must never
+# bloat a review. A single soul change regenerates dist/neuron.c + dist/soul.c =
+# ~57,000 lines of churn that buries the real ~few-hundred-line source diff and
+# poisons both human review and the agent review pipeline.
+#
+#   -diff               → git emits "Binary files differ" instead of the text diff
+#   linguist-generated  → Gitea collapses the file in the PR view + drops it from
+#                          language stats
+#
+# Net effect: PRs show only the real .el/source changes; the build is untouched.
+dist/**              -diff linguist-generated
+neuron-built         -diff linguist-generated
+dist/neuron          -diff linguist-generated