Gitignore Gem

Command line program that allows to generate .gitignore files base on predefined templates (in the future you will be able to create your own templates). If you already have a .gitignore file, the content of the templates will be append to it.

The gem is on beta, use at your own risk !!!! (e.g. you could lose your .gitignore if the template is not found :( )

gem install gitignore

Usage: gitignore NAMES_OF_TEMPLATES [OPTIONS]

Example: gitignore android osx eclipse

Options

-h, --help                       help

-o, --overwrite                  overwrite the contents of  existing gitignore file

-l, --list                       prints all possible templates

Let say we want to create a gitignore file for a project in a mac, and our project will use ruby, we would execute:

gitignore OSX ruby

#********** OSX **********

.DS_Store

# Thumbnails
._*

# Files that might appear on external disk
.Spotlight-V100
.Trashes

#********** ruby **********

*.gem
*.rbc
.bundle
.config
coverage
InstalledFiles
lib/bundler/man
pkg
rdoc
spec/reports
test/tmp
test/version_tmp
tmp

# YARD artifacts
.yardoc
_yardoc
doc/

Or let say our project is on linux, and we will use django, and of course python , SASS, and emacs

gitignore Django Linux Python SASS emacs

This gem use the github templates, you can check it at

[Github Templates] (https://github.com/github/gitignore/)

or you can just execute

gitignore --list

I recommend you to use it in combination with grep as follows

gitignore --list | grep 'Text'

1. Fork it.
2. Create a branch (git checkout -b my_gitignore)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am "Added nyancat")
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my_gitignore)
5. Create an Issue with a link to your branch
6. Enjoy a refreshing Diet Coke and wait