The 250-line cap applies to prose too, and the reports were the worst
offenders -- ENUME's projectA.tex alone was 1,876 lines. Each is now a
preamble plus one \input{} per section, which is how a long LaTeX document is
normally organised; not one byte of prose was rewritten.
"The PDF is unchanged" is checked by a script rather than by eye, because
hashing the PDF cannot work: pdflatex stamps a /CreationDate and an /ID into
every build, so two runs of the SAME source already differ. tex_fingerprint.sh
compares what a reader sees instead -- page count plus a hash of the extracted
text -- and it is stable across rebuilds of untouched sources, which is the
property that makes it usable as a gate.
It earned its keep immediately. Both ECOTE reports quote an example LaTeX
document inside an lstlisting block, so \end{document} appears in the middle
of the file; splitting on the FIRST one stranded everything after it. Same
page count, different text, caught automatically. EOPSY lab3 exposed a second
bug: a \section{} title that runs onto the next line.
Result: 19 .tex over the cap -> 1. The survivor,
ELAC/.../03-building-nfa-...tex, is 418 lines of consecutive tikz figures
with no subsection to split on and needs a hand-placed boundary.
Verified: 29 splits across two passes (section, then subsection for the
pieces still over), every one reporting `unchanged` from
scripts/tex_fingerprint.sh --check.
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Untracked (--cached, so they stay on disk): 76 LaTeX artifacts, 7 .xdv XeTeX
intermediates, 18 -eps-converted-to.pdf from epstopdf, 32 files of .NET
obj/Debug/net6.0 output including three copies of lab2.dll, 16 .class/.o, the
9 MB Nx cache with its native .node, and an entire committed Python
virtualenv at ECOTE/program/ecote (python 3.10.10, 18 files).
The existing 407-line LaTeX .gitignore was NOT unused as I first assumed --
it already covered *.aux and *.class, and the artifacts simply predate it. So
this appends the categories it missed (*.o, obj/, .venv/, .nx/, target/)
rather than rewriting something that was working.
The second half is the more interesting bug. Auditing with
git ls-files | git check-ignore --stdin --no-index
found 130 files that were tracked AND ignored. That combination fails
silently: `git add` on such a file is not an error, the edit just never
lands. Causes were dist/ swallowing the vendored jQuery/Bootstrap bundle,
.vscode/ and .idea/, and -- the good one -- the LaTeX template's man-page
patterns *.[1-9] and *.[1-9][0-9] matching EPFU's date-named report
directories, so doc/21.11/ read as a man page section and took report.pdf
and seven screenshots with it.
32 of those 130 turned out to be more build output and were untracked too;
the rest got targeted ! overrides. The first attempt used a blanket
!NotProgramming/EMISY/** which re-enabled that course's own LaTeX artifacts,
so it is narrowed to the *.1 schematic exports that actually needed it.
TRAK's nested .gitignore excluded the .vscode DIRECTORY, which stops git
descending, so no root-level ! can reach inside -- that one had to be fixed
at its source.
Both invariants now verified: 0 tracked files ignored, and 0 of the 189
untracked artifacts leaked back into view.
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