How to Ignore Uploading Folders and Files to GitHub

For example .venv folder

  1. Open your project folder in VS Code.

  2. Open .gitignore file in the root of the project

  3. Add the following line to .gitignore:

    .venv/

  4. Save the file. then Git will ignore the .venv folder, and it won’t be tracked in your repository.

If .venv was already committed before, you’ll need to remove it from Git history using:

git rm -r --cached .venv
git commit -m "Removed .venv from repository"
git push origin main  # or your current branch

You can check if .venv is ignored by Git using the following command

git check-ignore -v .venv