Git: Exclude a file with git clean

Question

i\'m working on a big python project, and i\'m really sick if .pyc and *~ files. I\'d like to remove them. I\'ve seen that the -X flag of git clean would remove

Answer 1

If you're running Python 2.6+ just set the environment variable, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, to true. You can just add the following to something like .profile or .bashrc to disable it entirely for your profile:

export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=true

Or, if you just want to do that for a particular project you're working, you'll need to run the above in your shell each time (or in one of your virtualenv init scripts if you're using virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper), or you can simply pass the -B parameter when you call python, e.g.

python -B manage.py runserver