gitignore for a python venv based in the root of a git project

Question

I'm setting up a python project in git and the I want to run the project in a venv. I'm running python3 -m venv . in the root of the git repo.

This creates multiple directories and a file:

• bin
• include
• lib
• lib64
• share
• pyenv.cfg

Which of these files and folders are import to my colleagues to set up the environment in the same way I did? In the root of the project I've also included this script to set up:

python3 -m venv .
source bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Answer 1

You should ignore the entire venv folder.

To make that easier, you probabaly want to do python3 -m venv .venv instead, and add .venv to your .gitignore file.