gitignore

Gitignore generator

This is a CLI tool for generating gitignores

Why I wrote this

Most commonly, when I start my project, my workflow looks like this

mkdir -p ~/dev/my-project
cd ~/dev/my-project
git init
touch .gitignore
# search github for gitignore file for the language/framework I'm using
# paste gitignore contents into file

This project aims to replicate those 2 manual steps with a simple command - for a Go project, for example:

gitignore generate go

Installation

The easiest way to install this package is to download a versioned release at the releases page

Building from source

Requires a working go installation. This package was developed in go 1.12, but should work with any decently recent version of go.

go get -u github.com/emman27/gitignore

Supported keywords

The list of supported gitignores will grow based on usage. As of now, only the following keywords are supported for generation

go