diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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@@ -13,5 +13,3 @@
 /node_modules/
 /test-results/
 /playwright-report/
-/tests/git-scm.spec.js-snapshots/*-darwin.png
-/tests/git-scm.spec.js-snapshots/*-win32.png
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 For more fine-grained testing, you can pass `-g <regex>` to run only the matching test cases.
 
-> [!NOTE]
-> When running the test suite on platforms other than Linux, the first run will "fail" in the `dark mode` test case. That is expected! This test case relies on previously-generated screenshots that are stored in `tests/git-scm.spec.js-snapshots/`, and for bandwidth reasons only the Linux ones are committed in the Git repository (because they are required to run the PR/CI builds). The first run will store those screenshots so that subsequent runs of this test case will succeed, though.
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 ## Update manual pages
 
 First, install the Ruby prerequisites: