gitignore

# =========================================
# 🧪 Clinical Research Chatbot – .gitignore
# =========================================

# -------------------------
# Python
# -------------------------
__pycache__/
*.pyc
*.pyo
*.pyd
*.pkl
*.pickle

# -------------------------
# Environment / virtualenv
# -------------------------
.venv/
env/
venv/
ENV/
*.env

# -------------------------
# Data & Logs
# -------------------------
logs/*
!logs/.gitkeep
!logs/query_log.csv     # keep recent chatbot logs

# -------------------------
# Data Folders
# -------------------------
# Keep reference docs & FAQs, ignore temporary files
data/public_docs/*
!data/public_docs/.gitkeep

data/faq/*
!data/faq/.gitkeep

# Glossary and metadata files should stay (important for chatbot)
!data/glossary.json
!data/faq_data.json
!data/clinical_faq.json

# Ignore temporary FAISS or index rebuilds
persistent/*
!persistent/.gitkeep
!persistent/faiss.index
!persistent/faiss.index.meta.json

# -------------------------
# Hugging Face + Transformers cache
# -------------------------
.cache/
datasets/
transformers_cache/
.huggingface/

# -------------------------
# IDE / Editor
# -------------------------
.vscode/
.idea/
.DS_Store

# -------------------------
# Miscellaneous
# -------------------------
*.tmp
*.bak