When your .gitignore file contains exactly one entry: itself. The ultimate act of self-exclusion. It's like writing a suicide note for version control. Does it work? Technically yes. Should you do it? Also yes, because watching junior devs try to figure out why the .gitignore isn't being tracked is the best entertainment you'll get all sprint.
The recursion here is chef's kiss. A file whose entire purpose is to ignore things, ignoring itself. It's the programming equivalent of "this statement is false" but somehow less useful.
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