Use .gitattributes to hide the deployment record in diffs

[dotNomad]

A .gitattributes file has the ability to collapse diffs in GitHub and GitLab when the diff is generated and not really necessary to review. This is common with files like package-lock.json.

We can utilize this to help with the generated deployment record file when users use git.

References:

• Customizing how changed files appear on GitHub
• Collapse generated files

[dotNomad]

This may not be as applicable when we work to simplify the deployment record and instead use Connect as the source-of-truth for a lot of the attributes we read from the deployment record.

---

Some ideas on how we can address this:

• add documentation recommending the creation of .gitattributes
• generate it for users
  • potentially only when they are inside of a git repo already