python - Remove and ignore all files that have an extension from a git repository

Question

I'm working on a django project with a few other developers and we have recently realized that all the .pwc files in our app cause the commits and repository to be cluttered.

Is there any way I can remove all .pwc files from all child directories in my git repository and then ignore them for any future commit?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2320895/remove-and-ignore-all-files-that-have-an-extension-from-a-git-repository

Answer 1

Plenty of ways to remove them:

git ls-files | grep '.pwc$' | xargs git rm

find . -name *.pwc | xargs git rm

Note: If you haven't committed them, just use rm, not git rm.

To ignore them in the future, simply add *.pwc to the .gitignore. (If you don't have one, create a file named .gitignore at the top level of your repository, and just add a single line saying "*.pwc")