[Shubham-Padkonde]

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Reasons for making this change

The Magento 2 template ignores app/etc/config.php, hiding the shared deployment configuration (including enabled modules) from a project's initial commit. Adobe's deployment workflow explicitly requires this file to be versioned and shared across development, staging and production.

Remove that ignore rule and explain the distinction beside app/etc/env.php, which remains ignored because it contains environment-specific and sensitive settings. This only changes the Magento 2 community template.

Validation with a fresh Git repository and git check-ignore --quiet --no-index: before the change, the shared configuration is incorrectly ignored; afterward, all 17 path checks pass. These include env.php, generated code, vendor files, cache/static/media output, the existing .htaccess exceptions, application source and Composer manifests. git diff --check passes.

AI assistance was used to investigate and validate this change.

Links to documentation supporting these rule changes

• Adobe: Configuration files for deployment describes config.php as shared configuration that should be checked into source control.
• Adobe: Pipeline deployment technical details distinguishes versioned config.php from environment-specific and sensitive env.php.

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