Using alpha54 on wsl.

node_modules
lastDate
usage-*.csv
payment-*.csv
.env

becomes

.git
.DS_Store
astDate
usage-*.csv
payment-*.csv
.env

pijul init overwrites .ignore file here:

$ cd
$ rm -rf p1
$ mkdir p1
$ cd p1
$ vim .ignore
$ cat .ignore 
mike
1
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$ pijul init .
$ cat .ignore
.git
.DS_Store
$

@boogerlad

Thanks for the heads up; the accompanying patch fixes this.

Thanks! I just applied this change to main.