✨ feat: add optional-apps-template and update docs/gitignore

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added template file for managing optional WinGet applications.
  • Enhanced backup process to include optional applications configuration alongside core apps.

• Documentation

  • Revised user setup guidance to copy from template files before customizing.

• Tests

  • Added test verification for backup functionality.

• Chores

  • Updated .gitignore to properly exclude personal configuration files.

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📒 Files selected for processing (5)

• .gitignore
• README.md
• optional-apps-template.json
• preflight-backup.ps1
• tests/BackupRestore.Tests.ps1

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

This PR adds support for optional apps management by introducing app manifest templates, updating backup/restore configuration to include optional apps, and modifying documentation and gitignore patterns accordingly. The changes establish a template-based workflow for users to manage apps.json and optional-apps.json files without committing personal configurations to git.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Git Configuration .gitignore	Normalized ignore patterns to exclude apps.json, optional-apps.json, apps-export.json, and related personal config files; removed prior guidance to keep apps.json unignored.
Documentation & Templates README.md, optional-apps-template.json	Updated README to instruct users to create apps.json and optional-apps.json from template files (apps-template.json and optional-apps-template.json); added new optional-apps-template.json manifest with sample Winget packages and metadata.
Backup & Restore preflight-backup.ps1, tests/BackupRestore.Tests.ps1	Extended backup script to include optional-apps.json in the list of files to back up; added test assertion to verify backup script references the optional-apps file.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~10 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• feat(config): Update .gitignore and add Sophia Script function reference #4: Modifies .gitignore handling of apps.json patterns and ignore behavior
• (pre): pre backup PowerShell scriptIntroduce preflight-backup.ps1 to orchestrate backupand manifest generation forative-windows backups. The scriptadds argument parsing, config resolution, helper to- resolve effective and repository paths- map folders and extra into normalized backup rules- detect drive paths and destination usage unless forced- query git remote URL and resolve common known-folder locations- normalize rule IDs and build backup rule- assert and create destination root and scaffold a robocopy-based directory copy helper (partial) #7: Updates preflight-backup.ps1 to extend backup file selection (same script modified here)
• ✨feat add optional-apps.json support and update docs/version #11: Directly related—adds and wires up optional-apps.json support across backup, tests, and templates

Poem

🐰 A template trail for apps both neat,
Optional choices, oh what a treat!
From templates born, no secrets in git,
Backups preserved, every bit!
Config controlled, order's complete! 📦✨

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch ta-branch-1

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