Fix Your Git Repo

Detecting the Problem

Your Git repo cannot have the Virtual Environment committed. There are about 1000 files that are built into this one directory. Committing them to Git WILL cause problems for you.

Python 3 creates cached files when it runs a program. These files cannot be committed to Git or they WILL cause problems.

Do you have the problem?

Go to the Github Website. Click through all directories in your repo.

Look for the Virtual Env (env, venv, etc.)

Look for pycache

If you have either then you have the problem.

.gitignore

Now look for .gitignore anywhere in the directory structure.

You must have this file to tell git to ignore certain files.

If you are missing .gitignore then copy the file from my repo and put it in your root.

Now venv and pycache will not be committed.

Remove Old Cache files

cd into the directory where pycache lives.

Remove all the files from git.

git pull

git rm -r __pycache__

git commit -m 'Remove cache files'

git push

Clean up remote files

# Throw away changes
git checkout .

# Bring in deletions
git pull

Remove Venv Code

cd into the directory where pycache lives.

Remove all the files from git.

git pull

git rm -r Venv

git commit -m 'Remove Venv files'

git push

Rebuild your Local Venv

Reinstall Venv

pipenv install django

pipenv shell

Rebuild your Remote Venv

Create an isolated python environment

mkvirtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python3.8 .venv

Install Django in the environment

pip install django