gitignore-starter: ignore personal data exports - #38
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Adds a "personal exports: never versioned, never published" block after the data block. The starter covered credentials and data but had no pattern for personal data exports (social-media and account takeouts), while the prose says never to publish them. Petition: claude-notes briefings/petition-carry-forward-2026-09-24.md item 9; approved by Jones 2026-09-24. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Why
The starter covers credentials and data, but has no pattern for personal data exports (social-media and account takeouts), while Part 2c's Never publish list covers anything sensitive, which such an export is. A search of the repository for
takeout,Social Mediaandpersonal exportreturned nothing. This fills that gap the same way the credentials block does: by the names the exporting services actually use.Sightings
One session's proposal, relayed by a second machine's coordination session. No second sighting is recorded, so this is best read as a defect (a gap between the starter and the prose) rather than a new rule.
What changes
gitignore-starter: a new block,# --- personal exports: never versioned, never published, placed after the data block. Seven patterns:Social Media/,takeout*/,*Takeout*,facebook-*/,instagram-*/,mydata~*.zip,Basic_LinkedInDataExport*.Approved by Jones on 2026-09-24. Drafted in claude-notes:
briefings/petition-carry-forward-2026-09-24.mditem 9.🤖 Generated with Claude Code