From b9a18bd31f265e29f14e6619b723591e73dfd8eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alanv <alanv@labkey.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 17:04:26 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add clientAPIs/README.md

Add clientAPIs/* to .gitignore
---
 .gitignore           | 2 ++
 clientAPIs/README.md | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 clientAPIs/README.md

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0cecbd5a51..62ff17cf7a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ remoteapi/
 server/modules/ 
 server/testAutomation/
 tools/
+clientAPIs/*
+!clientAPIs/README.md
 
 # Include the remoteapi README -- this line will override previous exclusion
 !remoteapi/README.md
diff --git a/clientAPIs/README.md b/clientAPIs/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..56581949ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clientAPIs/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+### Client API Checkout Directory
+
+Clone client API repositories (e.g. `labkey-api-js`) into this directory. If you are using
+[labkey-workspaces](https://github.com/LabKey/labkey-workspaces) it will assume all client API repositories are in this
+directory when executing commands.