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[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I prefer to flip the logic of the .gitignore.

# ignore root files/folders
/*

# unignore files
!.gitignore
!README.md
!Justfile
!flake.nix
!flake.lock
!pyproject.toml
!.python-version
!uv.lock

# unignore folders
!src/
!docs/

# reignore (recursively)
__pycache__

This includes the files and folders (and their subfiles/folders), while recursively ignoring any pycache bullshit.

Small
Maintainable
Easy to change
Readable

[-] MantisWaffle@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Why do you have __pycache__? Is it not already ignored by the catch-all rule at the beginning?

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