Creating a .gitignore file for a Django website
Solution 1
You could consider a gitignore
tailored for Django project instead.
And don't forget that, if you already have added and committed a folder content, you will need to remove them before your .gitignore can take effect.
git rm --cached -r afolder/
However, by default, migration
is not ignored. (you can skip some of those migration steps)
As pointed out by Ora in the comments, see "Should I be adding the Django migration files in the .gitignore
file?".
So, do not add migration/
to your .gitignore
.
Solution 2
The best example I have found is here: https://djangowaves.com/tips-tricks/gitignore-for-a-django-project/
This is not my work!!! I don't want to take credit for someone else's good collection! Not everything in there is relevant. The author documents it well, though, so you can boil it down to what you need.
I would also add:
**/migrations
*.DS_Store
**/__pycache__
**/.DS_Store
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Zorgan
Updated on September 15, 2022Comments
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Zorgan over 1 year
I'm ready to push my existing Django project (which i've been running in a local environment) to a Bitbucket repository so I can run it on a public server. At the moment I feel like there's a lot of files created in local development that needs to be added to
.gitignore
.I found this
.gitignore
file on github however I still feel it's missing some things, for example it doesn't seem to remove files from eachmigrations
folders. There's also a lot of stuff there that I don't know what they do - I understand not all of it is needed. Any advice is appreciated. -
Yash Kumar Verma over 2 yearsmigrations are supposed to be shipped, why would you ignore these?