From 854c954180d7518e71c214d2e30a985572bfb617 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristjan ESPERANTO <35647502+KristjanESPERANTO@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:40:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [gitignore] restore the old Git behavior for the default
 modules (#3968)

The pattern `modules` was too broad and prevented tracking files in
`modules/default/` despite the negation pattern. Changed to `modules/*`
to properly exclude only the content of the modules directory while
allowing the default modules to be tracked.

This issue was likely introduced during the cleanup in #3952.

Without this change there are now warn messages like this:

```bash
kristjan@debian:~/MagicMirror$ git add modules/default/compliments/compliments.js
The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
modules
hint: Use -f if you really want to add them.
hint: Disable this message with "git config advice.addIgnoredFile false"
```
---
 .gitignore   | 2 +-
 CHANGELOG.md | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ba72343d..a8bcdd35 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Temporary Items
 .Trash-*
 
 # Ignore all modules except the default modules.
-modules
+modules/*
 !modules/default
 
 # Ignore changes to the custom css files but keep the sample and main.
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3b9a4aad..2b7f191e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ planned for 2026-01-01
 - [core] refactor: replace `XMLHttpRequest` with `fetch` in `translator.js` (#3950)
 - [tests] migrate e2e tests to Playwright (#3950)
 - [calendar] refactor: migrate CalendarFetcher to ES6 class and improve error handling (#3958)
+- [gitignore] cleanup/simplify .gitignore (#3952, #3954, #3968)
 
 ### Fixed