A .gitignore the person already keeps in abcd's home is kept whatever it holds, and the marker is written beside it, so a file that does not ignore ideas/ (say one holding only transcripts/) leaves private ideate verdicts stageable by a dotfiles repository in the home, which the private store admits because abcd's home is taken to ignore itself there. Raised by the Sonnet reviewer of PR #991.

A .gitignore the person already keeps in abcd's home is kept whatever it holds, and the marker is written beside it, so a file that does not ignore ideas/ (say one holding only transcripts/) leaves private ideate verdicts stageable by a dotfiles repository in the home, which the private store admits because abcd's home is taken to ignore itself there. Raised by the Sonnet reviewer of PR #991.

Grounds

• declined: abcd never overwrites a .gitignore the person keeps in its home; that is the self-ignoring home's stated scope, and their file is their statement of what to ignore. Rewriting it, or refusing private verdicts until they change it, would override a file the person wrote on purpose.