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Mar 7, 2021 at 22:12
Today I learnt that you can tell GitHub which files in a repo are generated, so they're not shown in the default pull request view!
Customizing how changed files appear on GitHub - GitHub Docs
Customizing how changed files appear on GitHub - GitHub Docs
To keep certain files from displaying in diffs by default, or counting toward the repository language, you can mark them with the linguist-generated attribute in a .gitattributes file.

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