git, don't show me *.pyc in the list of untracked files!

Question

When doing:

>git status

It shows a big list of .pyc files under \"untracked files\". I don\'t want it to show these, as it adds noise.<

Answer 1

If I recall, there is a way to setup a global .gitignore... But the problem with that is you can't share it with other people (that is, other people who pull your code will see the .pyc files).

So, IMHO, it's better to just add it to the .gitignore for each project you start. I keep a stock .gitignore around for just that reason.

Or you could switch to bzr, which comes with a sensible default list of things to ignore ^_^