[venv] Add a `.gitignore` file with content `*` in the root folder generated by venv module

[star2000]

BPO	43275
Nosy	@brettcannon, @vsajip, @tirkarthi, @star2000
Superseder	bpo-39236: [venv] Adding a .gitignore file to virtual environments

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closed_at = <Date 2021-02-20.13:47:34.783>
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title = '[venv] Add a `.gitignore` file with content `*` in the root folder generated by venv module'
updated_at = <Date 2022-02-16.23:42:20.566>
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[star2000]

In this way, you don't need to add venv to .gitignore at the root of each project.

[tirkarthi]

This seems to be a duplicate of https://bugs.python.org/issue39236

[star2000]

I still think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.