git continues to control changes on __pycache__ even when it is in gitignore

Question

This is my .gitignore:

*__pycache__*

*.pyc

db.sqlite3

*.DS_Store

media/

res/

I can see on my Atom that __pycache__ directories are VcsIgnored (which implies that are recognized as not version controlled by git)

Answer 1

.gitignore file will tell git that new files in this directory should not be tracked. For your purposes you need to run the following command:

git rm --cached */__pycache__/*