[z1mm32m4n]

This is brilliant; I think I'll start doing this.

One slight modification: name the build and run scripts something that you will never expect to be in that repo (maybe like run-xyz.sh where xyz are my initials, 10 random characters, etc.).

Then, the filename can be excluded in a global gitignore file.

[tedmiston]

Yeah, good points. Maybe putting the script(s) inside a .whatever directory inside the project root like some other dev tools do is worth consideration. What do you think?

[theossuary]

Really to do this right you should make it function like direnv and create a whitelist of scripts you trust (bonus points for including hashes of the script). On first run it'll ask you to review and trust the script, and then just work on subsequent runs.

I'd love to have something like that as a utility