From e2fb6b2faee62f6da75b62249da85aced3b71fe6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "pulse-triage[bot]"
 <249995291+pulse-triage[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 03:05:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Match watchdog Git fixtures to the checkout ignore policy

The first exact offline suite passed the metadata cases but the clean-tree assertion saw Python import bytecode because the fixture omitted the real .gitignore. Copy that existing policy into the fixture, retaining the source/no-mutation assertion.

Contract-Neutral: Fixture setup now copies the existing repository ignore policy; runtime and deployment contracts are unchanged.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
---
 scripts/release_control/rehearsal_source_test.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/release_control/rehearsal_source_test.py b/scripts/release_control/rehearsal_source_test.py
index b69b4e6dde..f297703760 100644
--- a/scripts/release_control/rehearsal_source_test.py
+++ b/scripts/release_control/rehearsal_source_test.py
@@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ class RehearsalSourceTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.git("config", "user.email", "fixture@example.invalid")
         self.git("config", "user.name", "Fixture")
         self.git("config", "core.hooksPath", "/dev/null")
-        for name in ("scripts/release_control/control_plane.py",
+        # Match the real checkout's generated-file policy, including Python's
+        # import cache, while still detecting any uncommitted source change.
+        for name in (".gitignore", "scripts/release_control/control_plane.py",
                      "scripts/release_control/repo_file_io.py",
                      "scripts/release_control/resolve_release_promotion.py",
                      "docs/release-control/control_plane.json"):