That's it — the "extra" tracked file is just

.gitkeep

, which

ls

(without

-a

) doesn't show. 158 tracked = 157 meetings +

.gitkeep

. Perfectly consistent. There was never a phantom; my earlier 158/157 alarm was a red herring. Everything's genuinely clean now. Final re-sync to make sure the index reflects the renamed paths, then done.