Using git to manage virtualenv state: will this cause problems?

Question

I currently have git and virtualenv set up in a way which exactly suits my needs and, so far, hasn\'t caused any problems. However I\'m aware that my setup is non-standard and I

Answer 1

If you have any -e items in your requirements.txt - in other words if you have any editable dependencies as described in the format that are using the git version control system you will most likely run into issues when your src directory is committed. If you just add /src to your .gitignore then you can avoid this problem, but often the installation just adds a pointer in site-packages to this location, so you need it!