Automatically remove *.pyc files and otherwise-empty directories when I check out a new branch

Question

So here\'s an interesting situation when using git and python, and I\'m sure it happens for other situations as well.

Let\'s say I make a git repo with a folder /foo

Answer 1

Another option is to not solve this as a git problem at all, but as a Python problem. You can use the PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE environment variable to prevent Python from writing .pyc files in the first place. Then you won't have anything to clean up when you switch branches.