gitignore CLI

Fast gitignore CLI tool with cached templates

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• gitignore CLI
  • Features
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    • pipx
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  • Usage
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Features

• Extremely fast - no network calls made if the cache has been retrieved with gi --refresh.

Installation

First make sure the git executable is installed and in your $PATH, as it is required to retrieve the gitignore templates.

pipx

This is the recommended installation method.

$ pipx install gitignore-cli-tddschn

pip

$ pip install gitignore-cli-tddschn

Usage

You can either invoke gitignore CLI with gi or gitignore.

$ gitignore -h
usage: gitignore [-h] [-o FILE] [-r] [-l] [-a] [-w] [TEMPLATES ...]

gitignore CLI

positional arguments:
  TEMPLATES            A positional argument (default: None)

options:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  -o FILE, --out FILE  Output to file, append if exists, if -a or -w is not specified (default: <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='utf-8'>)
  -r, --refresh        Refresh gitignore cache (default: False)
  -l, --list           Lists available gitignore templates (default: False)
  -a, --append         Append to the .gitignore of current git repository (default: False)
  -w, --write          Write to the .gitignore of current git repository (overwrite) (default: False)

Develop

$ git clone https://github.com/tddschn/gitignore-cli-tddschn.git
$ cd gitignore-cli-tddschn
$ poetry install