Instruction file imported from Thujone82/kreftus (.cursor/rules/heritage-commit-trees-json.mdc). Copyright stays with the author.

Heritage: always commit trees.json (CRITICAL)

heritage/data/trees.json is the tree database shipped to every user of the PDX Heritage Trees app. It is intentionally version-controlled and must always be included when it is modified.

When the user asks to commit and/or push Heritage (heritage/**) changes:

• Always stage and commit heritage/data/trees.json if it is modified, even for a doc-only or code-only request.
• Never exclude it as "unrelated", "data churn", "scraper output", or "noise". It ships with the app.
• Prefer committing it in the same commit as the related Heritage change. If it was left out of a prior commit, commit and push it promptly as a follow-up.
• This overrides the general "exclude unrelated files" guidance for this specific file: trees.json is never unrelated to a Heritage commit.