rdmbair15m5-changelog-20260923-1902-task-20260901-10-remove-tracked-backups-fleetwide

Audited 93 tracked backup files across 9 canonical repositories, confirmed divergence against live counterparts, removed all stale backups via git rm, and added .gitignore rules to prevent pre-fix answers to grep.

Scope

• Host: rdmbair15m5 (coordinated execution on rdmsm4x:~/dev and git.ecs0.net bare store)
• Repositories: issues, sites/dev.ecs0.net, todo, notes, data, lib/domains, scripts/macos, scripts, fleet

Problem Addressed

Tracked .bak, .orig, and .bak-* files across repositories answered searches (e.g. grep -r, git grep) with stale pre-fix implementations or obsolete schemas (e.g. outdated bin/ticket, outdated products.json, old gateway.conf lacking /mem0 proxying). Git history already preserves all previous iterations, making tracked in-tree backup files redundant hazards.

Audit Findings & Actions

1. Divergence Analysis:
   • 81 files were divergent obsolete snapshots of live files (e.g. products.json, domains.json, bin/ticket, gateway.conf, dev_update.zsh, nightly_audit.zsh).
   • 1 file was byte-identical (archive/update_mac.zsh.bak.20260706-041500).
   • 11 files were orphaned/superseded incident and historic scratch files (ticket.HEAD-3719L-39e9706.bak, ticket.WORKING-760L-*.bak, index.sqlite.bak-161525, etc.).
   • RTTy's four tracked .bak files preserved untouched per recorded comment and active Claude work.
2. Git Removal:
   • issues: removed 3 tracked .bak files (including stale index.sqlite.bak-161525 and bin/ticket.bak-20260830).
   • sites/dev.ecs0.net: removed infra/nginx/gateway.conf.bak-20260829-stitch-path.
   • todo: removed items/20260829-replicantdb-mcp-binary-answers-no-handshake.md.bak-20260830-0051.
   • notes: removed 2 tracked .bak changelog drafts in secondary-logs/rdmsm4x/.
   • data: removed 7 tracked .bak files (products.json.bak-*, site_log.jsonl.bak-*).
   • lib/domains: removed 3 tracked .bak files in archive/bak-20260903/.
   • scripts/macos: removed 5 tracked .bak files in Documents_Scripts/.
   • scripts: removed 22 tracked .bak files in archive/ and Scripts (icloud)/.
   • fleet: removed 51 tracked .bak files across tooling/host-scripts/, hosts/, and ops/.
3. Prevention via .gitignore:
   • Added standard backup ignore patterns to .gitignore across all 9 repositories:

     *.bak
     *.bak-*
     *.bak.*
     .*.bak-*
     *.orig

4. Verification Evidence:
   • Verified with git ls-files across all 9 repositories that exactly 0 tracked backup files remain.
   • Verified commits pushed to canonical bare store (fleet / origin on git.ecs0.net) and private GitHub mirror (backup):
     • issues: 2d43cf8, 8b9812a
     • sites/dev.ecs0.net: f0c3539
     • todo: 679e251
     • notes: ea7d795
     • data: 40db207
     • lib/domains: 477d99d
     • scripts/macos: 1ef1f83
     • scripts: 6c54393
     • fleet: 01fea5e
   • Broadcasted resolution on fleet message bus (20260923-190123-63E7BC0A).

Outstanding Actions

• None. All tracked backup files resolved; repositories clean.