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+# https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/merge_requests/changes#collapse-generated-files
+# https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/-/docs/overrides.md#generated-code
+# https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes#_defining_macro_attributes
+[attr]generated gitlab-generated linguist-generated
+
+/internal/collector/generated/*.json generated
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-# https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/working-with-files/managing-files/customizing-how-changed-files-appear-on-github
-/*.json linguist-generated=true