Merge branch 'jk/open-dotgitx-with-nofollow'

It does not make sense to make ".gitattributes", ".gitignore" and ".mailmap" symlinks, as they are supposed to be usable from the object store (think: bare repositories where HEAD:.mailmap etc. are used). When these files are symbolic links, we used to read the contents of the files pointed by them by mistake, which has been corrected. * jk/open-dotgitx-with-nofollow: mailmap: do not respect symlinks for in-tree .mailmap exclude: do not respect symlinks for in-tree .gitignore attr: do not respect symlinks for in-tree .gitattributes exclude: add flags parameter to add_patterns() attr: convert "macro_ok" into a flags field add open_nofollow() helper