Ignoring files
In my project, I have my virtualenv set up in my .venv folder, and I certainly don't want to include it in my commit, so I have to make sure to ignore it. So, let's head over to Settings... and do the following:
Inside, we can choose to add either files or folders. Come to think of it PyCharm also generates project metadata and stores this data in the .idea folder, and I'll need to ignore that as well. After clicking on [3], we get the following window:
We can choose to ignore files, folders, or even patterns. For example, you can ignore ...
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