Question

So I’m testing out Heroku with a dummy app called hellodjango, and pushing everything to git.

Added my .gitignore file (tell me if I’m wrong, I created a text document called django.gitignore, and the contents are 1 line, no spaces, venv*.log*.pot*.pyclocal_settings.py.

Not sure what I’m doing wrong, but here is my directory

hellodjango/
    django.gitignore
    manage.py
    requirements.txt
    hellodjango/
        __init__.py
        __init__.pyc
        settings.py
        settings.pyc
        urls.py
        urls.pyc
        wsgi.py
        wsgi.pyc
    venv/
        Include/
        Lib/
        Scripts/

So I don’t want to stage any .pyc files or the venv folder.

In my command line, I enter

git init

Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/Chris/hellodjango/.git/
>git add .
>git status

When I enter git status, all of the files in venv and .pyc are staged. Why is .gitignore not working?

Answer 1

The gitignore file needs to be named only .gitignore without a django in front of the dot.

You can find more information about ignoring files and possible patterns supported in the ProGit book on the official website: ProGit Chapter 2-2.