Far too often I find myself going to gitignore.io
to quickly get .gitignore templates for my projects, so what would any
reasonable programmer do for repetitive tasks?
Automate it! Now you can
quickly and easily get and list all the templates available on gitignore.io, it
even works offline by caching the templates!
There are a couple of ways of installing it. See installation and usage instructions below.
cargo install git-ignore-generator.
Run nix-env -iA nixpkgs.gitAndTools.git-ignore. This includes man pages.
Add my personal Homebrew taps repository with brew tap sondr3/homebrew-taps
and then install it with brew install git-ignore. This includes man pages.
It's available as a binary package from
AUR. Install it with your
favorite AUR helper. yay git-ignore. This includes man pages.
You can also download the matching release from the release
tab, extracting the archive and
placing the binary in your $PATH. Note that for Linux the
unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz is preferred as it is statically linked and thus
should run on any Linux distribution.
To download and cache all available templates, use --update. This can also be
used in combination with any of the other flags/arguments, or be ran as a
standalone flag.
sh
$ git ignore -u
To list all the available templates:
sh
$ git ignore --list
[
"1c",
"1c-bitrix",
"a-frame",
"actionscript",
"ada",
[...],
"zukencr8000"
]
You can also search for templates with the --list flag. Note: Listing
templates doesn't require exact matches, any template matching the start of your
query will be matched. See the example below for this, intellij matches all
three templates starting with intellij:
sh
$ git ignore rust intellij --list
[
"intellij",
"intellij+all",
"intellij+iml",
"rust"
]
Then you can print the templates by omitting --list. Note: While listing
do not require exact matches, printing templates do. Use --list to find
templates. There will also be a notice about using cached results, this is
printed to stderr as to not interfere with piping.
```sh $ git ignore rust intellij+all
[...]
*/.rs.bk ```
Finally, help is always available with git ignore -h (or --help if you used
Nix).