ignore-it is a tool written in ruby which helps in fetching and creating .gitignore files. Currently .gitignore files will be fetched from https://gitignore.io or from local user-made templates.

gem install ignore-it

Commands:
  ignore-it add [templateName]  # Select gitignore template to create a .gitignore file or add a template to an existing .gitignore file
  ignore-it help [COMMAND]      # Describe available commands or one specific command
  ignore-it list                # Show List of available .gitignore entries
  ignore-it own [fileName]      # Select user-created template from the folder specified in ~/.ignore-it/config.yml. Default is ~/.ignore-it/gitignores/.

Options:
  [--force]          
  [--output="OUTPUT"]           # Optional Path to directory where .gitignore should be created. 

You can chain multiple gitignores (e.g vsocde and csharp) in a single command with ignore-it add vscode csharp.

Own gitignore templates can be accessed with ignore-it own <fileName>. Per default, the templates need to be created in ~/.ignore-it/gitignores/ and can be named freely. To choose a different path for your own created gitignores, you need to specify the absolute path to the directory in ~/ignore-it/config.yml

Configuration can be done in ~/.ignore-it/config.yml.

1. Clone the repo
2. install Dependencies with bundle install
3. Run with bundle exec ignore-it
4. Optionally Build with gem build ignore_it.gemspec
5. Optionally Install locally with gem install ignore-it-[VERSION].gem