Package: virtualenv
Version: 20.14.0+ds-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
'virtualenv' creates a .gitignore file that just excludes everything from git.
this is practical, if you do something like this:
```
virtualenv myenv
```
as this will just exclude everything in the myenv/ folder from git
(which is what you usually want).
now, for convenience, i find myself using the following quite often:
```
virtualenv .
```
this will (unfortunately) create a .gitignore file in my current directory
that will ignore everything (including the sources i'm currently working on)
i think, that in the special case of creating a virtualenv in the current
directory, no .gitignore file should be created (or it should be tightened to
just ignore the files managed by virtualenv, which afaict are
- /bin/
- /lib/
- /pyenv.cfg
)
luckily, virtualenv won't overwrite any existing .gitignore file (so not all is
lost).
cheers,
IOhannes m zmölnig
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Versions of packages virtualenv depends on:
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