Create useful .gitignore files for your project — gitignore.io
Every time I create a new project and want to commit the first files, I see files I don’t want in the git repository. Either the .DS_Store file, node_modules or any other file. So I search for .gitignore at DuckDuckGo, and end up at gitignore.io and then think “Why do I always search?”. Therefore, I decided to write this blog post and hopefully next time I’ll think about gitignore.io.
gi CLI
Because I run oh-my-zsh in my zsh shell, I already have gi in the CLI and even with code completion:
gi xcode swift >> .gitignore
To get a list of the possible entries just call gi list. When you call which gi you can see what gi does. It runs curl on the gitignore.io page:
gi () {
curl -fLw '\n' https://www.gitignore.io/api/"${(j:,:)@}"
}
Summary
Before you either commit everything on the first commit, or just check in a few files and maybe miss a few others, gitignore.io or gi offers the ability to build the .gitignore file depending on the programming language, development environment and operating system.
Let’s see, if I remember gi in the future 🔮.
