Closes #11203 Update packagist mirror repo to include a .gitattributes file.

[trackleft]

This pull request adds a .gitattributes file into the https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf-php repo during the Update PHP Repo workflow update process.

Alternatively we could add this .gitattributes into the https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/tree/main/php folder and update the action to include it when building the packagist repo.

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What is the purpose of this change? What is the goal of adding a .gitattributes file?

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The goal of this pull request is to allow projects to track the composer downloaded copy of this package in a git repository and for PHP to be able to use the artifact copy of the package.

At the moment git stores and tracks these files as a type of file that PHP can not use.

The .gitattributes file just tells git to store php files as text files so PHP can use them.

[haberman]

The goal of this pull request is to allow projects to track the composer downloaded copy of this package in a git repository and for PHP to be able to use the artifact copy of the package.

This isn't really a use case we support or test for. We support usage from a normal composer install.

If you are copying the composer install into a Git repo, can you create the .gitattributes file at that point?

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