ops-docs/maintenance/ledger-test-rows.md

Test rows in the credit ledger — deliberately kept (audit L7, 2026-11-05)

The portal credit_ledger carries a handful of historical test rows from the early build ("test credits (will revert)", "admin test - collective expense", and the matching reverts). They are net zero against member balances and every one is paired with its reversal.

Decision: leave them in place. Rewriting the money ledger — even to remove test noise — destroys the audit trail's property of "what's in the table is what happened"; the pollution is cosmetic and far outweighed by the cost of ever being wrong about a ledger edit. This note is the record; no code or data change accompanies it.

If the ledger ever grows a reporting consumer that must exclude them, filter by the reason text at query time rather than deleting rows.