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:

mkdir -p ~/dev/my-project
cd ~/dev/my-project
git init
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
golang
Go
python
py
Python

Testing

Testing is done using the testify framework as well as mockery for mock generation. You will need to generate the mock code for the tests to run. If you don't have an internet connection, run the tests in short mode to avoid integration tests failing

go generate ./...
go test -short ./...
go test ./...