gitignore failing to ignore .pyc files in library

Question

My gitignore has the following lines

__init__.cpython-36.pyc
functions.cpython-36.pyc
.DS_Store
__pycache__
*.pyc

But my git client is still registering changes to the pyc files

After reading online I just don't understand what my problem is. Any ideas? Let me know if I need to provide more information. Thanks

Possible duplicate of [How to make Git "forget" about a file that was tracked but is now in .gitignore?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1274057/how-to-make-git-forget-about-a-file-that-was-tracked-but-is-now-in-gitignore) — phd, Jun 21 '19 at 14:47

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 21 '19 at 14:43

This file was already tracked before you created .gitignore. In that case you need to untrack it:

git rm --cached ...

From man git-rm:

--cached

       Use this option to unstage and remove paths only from the
       index. Working tree files, whether modified or not, will be
       left alone.

gitignore failing to ignore .pyc files in library

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