Hey, you are right, in general we want to get away from committing node_module folders into the repository.
Please let me know where the file was needed to be included and was causing an issue.
Maybe it can be removed as well from git inclusion.

Maybe it can be removed as well from git inclusion.

Yes, it can be interesting

" we want to get away from committing node_module folders into the repository." Then how do you deploy files that are needed for the repository?

FYI: the reason this is a huge problem is for when one wants to build containers direclty from a specific source.

At any rate, the fix is simply removing the errant .gitignore line.

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git show 1ae43ab62145a929be8d1983b055178c300ea02f
commit 1ae43ab62145a929be8d1983b055178c300ea02f
Author: Otheus otheus.shelling@uibk.ac.at
Date: Thu Mar 27 09:31:15 2025 +0100

Fix bug https://bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=19584

diff --git a/limesurvey/.gitignore b/limesurvey/.gitignore
index 6b48b523..94dc29c1 100644
--- a/limesurvey/.gitignore
+++ b/limesurvey/.gitignore
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
/styles/

#ignore most of the js-build stuff
-node_modules/
+# node_modules/
node_modules//docs
node_modules//demo
node_modules/**/meteor
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OK, the above patch left out details due to magical formatting of this platform. But it should be clear that the fix is simple