PHP 7.3 reached end of support in December 2021 and Adobe Commerce 2.3.x reaches end of support in September 2022. You may want to consider planning your upgrade now to Adobe Commerce 2.4.x and PHP 7.4.x to help maintain PCI compliance.
.gitignore reference
We include a base .gitignore file with the Magento Open Source project repository. See the latest Magento .gitignore file. If you need to add a file that is in the .gitignore list, you can use the -f (force) option when staging a commit:
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git add <path/filename> -f