The negation patterns (!issues.jsonl, !interactions.jsonl, etc.) in
.beads/.gitignore had higher precedence than the fork protection
exclusion in .git/info/exclude, effectively defeating fork protection.
Contributors could accidentally stage and commit upstream issue
databases because:
1. Fork protection added .beads/issues.jsonl to .git/info/exclude
2. .beads/.gitignore had !issues.jsonl which overrode the exclusion
3. .gitignore files have higher precedence than .git/info/exclude
The negation patterns were unnecessary anyway since no pattern in
.beads/.gitignore matches those files. Added a comment explaining
why negations should not be added.
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