diff --git a/templates/components/csharp/gitignore b/templates/components/csharp/gitignore
index 89a41ac..089a99d 100644
--- a/templates/components/csharp/gitignore
+++ b/templates/components/csharp/gitignore
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ obj/
 .idea/
 TestResults/
 
-# Generator bookkeeping, rewritten on every regen.
-*.generated-paths.json
+# *.generated-paths.json is deliberately NOT ignored: the generator's path
+# manifest is committed, and is byte-identical when a regen moved nothing.
diff --git a/templates/components/python/gitignore b/templates/components/python/gitignore
index bf361c3..5f4bc10 100644
--- a/templates/components/python/gitignore
+++ b/templates/components/python/gitignore
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ __pycache__/
 .pytest_cache/
 .coverage
 
-# Generator bookkeeping, rewritten on every regen.
-*.generated-paths.json
+# *.generated-paths.json is deliberately NOT ignored: the generator's path
+# manifest is committed, and is byte-identical when a regen moved nothing.