Gitignore for a Django project

If you are using Git for version control, you need a Gitignore file to ignore all files that don’t matter and shouldn’t be in your git repository. Think of your virtual environment and all the .pyc files. Those are both generated and can be generated by anyone that has access to your code. Therefore, it’s unnecessary to add those to your repository.

There are a lot of different file types and specific folders that you don’t need. Even outside of Django. Think about your personal settings in VS Code (if you use that). Here is a list which covers all things that you can ignore through gitignore for every Django project you start. Put this list in the root of your Django project and call it `.gitignore` (yes, with the dot!).

Here's the ultimate Django gitignore

# Django #
*.log
*.pot
*.pyc
__pycache__
db.sqlite3
media

# Backup files # 
*.bak 

# If you are using PyCharm # 
# User-specific stuff
.idea/**/workspace.xml
.idea/**/tasks.xml
.idea/**/usage.statistics.xml
.idea/**/dictionaries
.idea/**/shelf
.idea/misc.xml,
.idea/jsLibraryMappings.xml

# AWS User-specific
.idea/**/aws.xml

# Generated files
.idea/**/contentModel.xml

# Sensitive or high-churn files
.idea/**/dataSources/
.idea/**/dataSources.ids
.idea/**/dataSources.local.xml
.idea/**/sqlDataSources.xml
.idea/**/dynamic.xml
.idea/**/uiDesigner.xml
.idea/**/dbnavigator.xml

# Gradle
.idea/**/gradle.xml
.idea/**/libraries

# File-based project format
*.iws

# IntelliJ
out/

# JIRA plugin
atlassian-ide-plugin.xml

# Python # 
*.py[cod] 
*$py.class 

# Distribution / packaging 
.Python build/ 
develop-eggs/ 
dist/ 
downloads/ 
eggs/ 
.eggs/ 
lib/ 
lib64/ 
parts/ 
sdist/ 
var/ 
wheels/ 
*.whl
*.egg-info/ 
.installed.cfg 
*.egg 
*.manifest 
*.spec 

# Installer logs 
pip-log.txt 
pip-delete-this-directory.txt 

# Unit test / coverage reports 
htmlcov/ 
.tox/ 
.coverage 
.coverage.* 
.cache 
.pytest_cache/ 
nosetests.xml 
coverage.xml 
*.cover 
.hypothesis/ 

# Jupyter Notebook 
.ipynb_checkpoints 

# pyenv 
.python-version 

# celery 
celerybeat-schedule.* 

# SageMath parsed files 
*.sage.py 

# Environments 
.env 
.venv 
env/ 
venv/ 
ENV/ 
env.bak/ 
venv.bak/ 

# mkdocs documentation 
/site 

# mypy 
.mypy_cache/ 

# Sublime Text # 
*.tmlanguage.cache 
*.tmPreferences.cache 
*.stTheme.cache 
*.sublime-workspace 
*.sublime-project 

# sftp configuration file 
sftp-config.json 

# Package control specific files Package 
Control.last-run 
Control.ca-list 
Control.ca-bundle 
Control.system-ca-bundle 
GitHub.sublime-settings 

# Visual Studio Code # 
.vscode/* 
!.vscode/settings.json 
!.vscode/tasks.json 
!.vscode/launch.json 
!.vscode/extensions.json 
.history