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+# Compatibility shim: the retired pre-carve spelling of `session_git`.
+#
+# The carve moved `ideation_dashboard/session_git.py` verbatim to openDox-code
+# as `opendox.session_git`. One protected suite still spells the old path in a
+# module-level string, `LOCK_HOLDER` in `tests/test_session_transaction.py`:
+# a rival process runs `from ideation_dashboard import session_git as sg`
+# after putting this directory's parent, `scripts/`, first on its `sys.path`.
+# This module answers that import with the real module under its new name.
+#
+# THERE IS NO `__init__.py` IN THIS DIRECTORY, ON PURPOSE. Without one, this
+# directory is a portion of the `ideation_dashboard` NAMESPACE package, so in a
+# composed run it merges with openxFactory's own `scripts/ideation_dashboard/`
+# (which has none either) instead of shadowing it. An `__init__.py` here would
+# turn `ideation_dashboard` into a regular package and hide every openxFactory
+# lane module beside it.
+#
+# `sys.modules[__name__] = _m` replaces this module's own entry with the real
+# one, so `ideation_dashboard.session_git` and `opendox.session_git` are the
+# same module object, and `SessionGit` and the rest of its names are identical.
+import sys
+
+from opendox import session_git as _m
+
+sys.modules[__name__] = _m