Question

I’m following the Python/Flask tutorial on Heroku: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python

These are the steps I take:

heroku login
mkdir MyFlaskApp
python virtualenv.py MyFlaskApp --distribute
source MyFlaskApp/bin/activate
cd MyFlaskApp
pip install Flask
pip freeze > requirements.txt
foreman start
git init
git add .
git commit -m "First commit"
heroku create MyFlaskApp
git push heroku master

However, when I do the git add & commit, I get a lot of files. In the tutorial, git push heroku master reports Counting objects: 10, but I get Counting objects: 425.

What could be the problem?

The only difference I see is that the tutorial doesn’t mention navigating to the app’s folder (e.g. cd MyFlaskApp).

UPDATE: this is my folder structure in the folder MyFlaskApp after going through the steps above:

bin/
include/
lib/
Procfile
app.py
requirements.txt
.gitignore

UPDATE 2: My .gitignore file (as in the tutorial):

venv
*.pyc

Answer 1

You’re actually creating the virtualenv in your local directory. You’ll either want to create it in the venv directory or add each of the three following items to your .gitignore:

bin
include
lib