Using .gitignore with *.pyc in subfolders
You should not need the **/:
__pycache__/ *.pycThat should be enough.
See for instance gitignore.io/python.
Note the practice of adding a trailing / to ignore specifically a folder.
Use git check-ignore -v -- afile (that I mentioned in Sept. 2013, with Git 1.8.2+) to check which rule ignores a file.
If the folder was already tracked:
git rm --cached -r __pycache__/André Duarte adds in the comments:
After adjusting
gitignore, I had to do this for every file, so I callawkfor help:git status | grep pycache | awk '{print $3}' | xargs git reset HEAD