# ADR-0024: Canonical Git and private Gitea baseline

## Status

Accepted — 2026-08-25.

## Decision

The first honest repository commit captures the already verified M7 disk state. No synthetic
milestone history is created. `Jens/ITWorx-ModelForge` on private ITWorx Gitea is canonical;
`master` is the default branch and `m7-baseline` identifies the immutable pre-M8 governance commit.
Force-push and branch deletion are blocked while non-force direct pushes remain compatible with the
existing autonomous workflow.

## Consequences

Baseline provenance and release gates are recorded separately from later logical M8 commits.
Secrets, runtime state and model artifacts remain excluded from history.