Remove and ignore all files that have an extension from a git repository

Question

I'm working on a django project with a few other developers and we have recently realized that all the .pwc files in our app cause the commits and repository to be cluttered.

Is there any way I can remove all .pwc files from all child directories in my git repository and then ignore them for any future commit?

Answer 1

Plenty of ways to remove them:

git ls-files | grep '\.pwc$' | xargs git rm  find . -name *.pwc | xargs git rm 

Note: If you haven't committed them, just use rm, not git rm.

To ignore them in the future, simply add *.pwc to the .gitignore. (If you don't have one, create a file named .gitignore at the top level of your repository, and just add a single line saying "*.pwc")