automatically exporting a sidecar file

Unless you turn these features off:

  • sidecars are created next to the input image, in the source folder;
  • output images contain the development history in the EXIF info, and can be used to apply that history to any image, just like an XMP sidecar could be used.

You may be able to create (or even find?) a Lua script that copies the sidecar to the output folder.