In a django project, what all files am I supposed to add in .gitignore?

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I am making a Django website project. I decided to push it to my git repo but I am not sure what files I should add in .gitignore

I guess all the settings.py files are certainly not supposed to be committed to git. What other files should I ignore?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/django+gitignore – phd Apr 10 '21 at 21:16 — phd, Apr 10 '21 at 21:16

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 10 '21 at 09:49

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Take a look at this .gitignore file. Normally you ignore all cache, migrations or short, .log files. Depends if you want to deploy you may also want to exclude the settings.py

answered Apr 10 '21 at 09:49

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But settings.py has info like db connection data and django secret key, so I guess I will ignore that too? Also, where to put this gitignore file? In my project root? – sakshamakagautam Apr 10 '21 at 10:10
You shouldn't ignore migrations. The whole point of migrations is to keep the database structure with the code. – Tim Nyborg Apr 10 '21 at 11:05

In a django project, what all files am I supposed to add in .gitignore?

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