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Tested 79bf5acb217ca94815c5cdacb8951b1b43891a79 with GNU grep in Git Bash on Windows, including POSIX shell mode.
The original command returned 10 fixture markers; this version returned exactly the 4 source markers. Both root and nested .git/dependency/build exclusions behave as intended. A source path containing spaces and a similarly named build-tools directory remain searchable; ordinary prose mentioning ponytail: does not become a ledger row.
No issue found in this change. This validates the scan command, not an agent's subsequent ledger generation.
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Fixes #948.
The
/ponytail-debtscan says it skips Git metadata, dependencies, and build output, but itsgrep -rcommand descended into all four directories. This adds explicit GNU grep exclusions for.git,node_modules,dist, andbuild, preventing third-party or generated markers from polluting the ledger and reducing unnecessary scanning. Separate flags also work without shell brace expansion.Verification: In a fixture with markers in
.git/config,node_modules/vendor.js, andsrc.js, the original command returned all three. The updated command returned onlysrc.js.git diff --checkpassed.