Forgitter

Forgitter is a .gitignore generator. It is based on the ignorefiles found at https://github.com/github/gitignore.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'forgitter'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install forgitter

Usage

To generate a .gitignore, run:

forgitter TAG1 [TAG2 ...]

Where TAG1, TAG2, etc. are tags that correspond to .gitignore files, e.g.,

$ forgitter vim
# github/Global/vim.gitignore
[._]*.s[a-w][a-z]
[._]s[a-w][a-z]
*.un~
Session.vim
.netrwhist
*~

By default, this will output to the standard output stream. You can redirect this to a file using one of the following:

forgitter TAG1 [TAG2 ...] > .gitignore  # overwrite
forgitter TAG1 [TAG2 ...] >> .gitignore # append

To see a list of ignorefiles that match specific tags, run:

forgitter -l TAG1 [TAG2 ...]

$ forgitter -l vagrant
custom vagrant extras     custom/vagrant/Extras.gitignore
custom vagrant vagrant    custom/vagrant/Vagrant.gitignore
github global vagrant     github/Global/Vagrant.gitignore

Running forgitter -l without arguments will list all available ignorefiles.

Contributing

This gem depends on the https://github.com/github/gitignore repository as a submodule. After cloning this repository, run the following to retrieve the *.gitignore files which will be cloned into data/:

git submodule init && git submodule update

*.gitignore files placed directly under data/ will be ignored due to tag ambiguity.

1. Fork it ( http://github.com/addiedx44/forgitter/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request