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 have commited the pyc's and so on already, do the following:

Add *.pyc, *~ and local_settings.py to the .gitignore. Then do in your git repository:

find . -name '*.pyc' | xargs rm
find . -name '*~' | xargs rm

then do:

git commit -am "get rif of them"

now they shouldn't bother you anymore