Problem

It’s annoying when you commit code changes to a Django project and a bunch of migration, cache files, and other junk get’s unwittingly checked in mucking up the git repo. This is often the case when using the `git add –all’ command.

Assumptions

1. The goal is to commit a Django code base without unnecessary migration, caching, etc.
2. User would like to use one script to issue a commit command that will first clean things up then commit the code with the message as passed at the command line.
3. User is using Git repo.
4. sqlite3 in memory DB is used for Django unit test cases and not needed

Solution

Create file clean_commit and populate with following code.

#!/bin/bash

find . -name "*pycache*" -exec rm -r {} \;
find . -name "migrations" -exec rm -r {} \;
find . -name "db.sqlite3" -exec rm {} \;
# Add other cleanup searches here

git add --all .
git commit -m "$1"
git push origin

Usage

./clean_commit "Completed implementation of hello_world module and added unit tests"