diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e247a3002..bc32a5f60 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 # Build and cache
 .cache/
 
-# Database
-db/commonwealth.db
+# Database journal files (transient, not the DB itself)
 db/commonwealth.db-wal
 db/commonwealth.db-shm
 
diff --git a/db/commonwealth.db b/db/commonwealth.db
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3fe36633b
Binary files /dev/null and b/db/commonwealth.db differ