Logo courtesy of Dominic Houston-Watt

Features

• Pulls .gitignore templates from gitignore.io.
• Clean and simple CLI
• Suggestion system to help correct potential typos
• Allows for the combination of any number of different templates all into one gitignore

Demo:

Examples of use:

console // generates a single gitignore file for both dart and flutter in ./src/.gitignore foo@bar:~$ blindfold --lang dart flutter

console // you can specify a speciic destination to store the gitignore file using the dest argument foo@bar:~$ blindfold --lang rust --dest ./src/

console // arguments can also be written in shorthand foo@bar:~$ blindfold -l rust -d ./src/

console // shows full list of available templates foo@bar:~$ blindfold list

console // There is a help screen that can be shown which details the subcommands and arguments to supply to the program foo@bar:~$ blindfold -h

Installation

NOTE: Rust must be installed on your system for this to work. It can be installed easily by running hte following command: console foo@bar:~$ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

• Clone the repository and cd into it
• Once in the top level directory of the repo run the command: console foo@bar:~$ cargo install --path ./

This will install the binary and add it to your path. Once installed you can use the tool as shown in the examples above.