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as per https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/2jzp6k/i_dont_need_your_tests_in_my_production/

The problem:

Although composer allows us to install a package as dist with --prefer-dist option, it doesn't make a big difference at this point in time, because you end up with all the files used for development (docs, tests, examples, etc) for each installed package.

The solution:

If each package maintainer would include a .gitattributes file in which (s)he enumerates all the files and directories that can be excluded from dist, we could have a more clean vendor/