New submission from Brett Cannon <br...@python.org>:
In a discussion on Twitter, the idea of having venv lay down a .gitignore file in a newly created virtual environment that consisted of nothing but `*` came up (https://twitter.com/codewithanthony/status/1213680829530099713). The purpose would be to help prevent people from inadvertently committing their venv to git. It seems pytest does something similar for .pytest_cache (got one complaint but have chosen to keep it otherwise). To me this seems like a good enhancement. Since this would mostly benefit beginners then it should probably be an opt-out if we do it at all. Maybe make --no-ignore-file to opt out? FYI Mercurial does not support subdirectory hgignore files like git does, so this may be git-specific (for now): https://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgignore.5.html. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 359459 nosy: brett.cannon, vinay.sajip, xtreak priority: low severity: normal status: open title: Adding a .gitignore file to virtual environments type: enhancement versions: Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39236> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
