ignorem

ignorem - The best gitignore manager yet!

About

ignorem makes interacting with your .gitignore file just like using a package manager. You can "install" pre-made gitignores into your file, remove them, and update them with ease! ignorem also supports user-modified gitignores, so your manual gitignore entries will be saved.

Installation

pip install ignorem

Usage

ignorem (command) [gitignore...]

Run ignorem from the command line, in the directory that contains the .gitignore file. ignorem requires one additional command:

Examples

Create a new gitignore for python
ignorem add python

Add android and vim to the gitignore
ignorem add android vim

Remove vim from the gitignore
ignorem remove vim

Manual ignores

ignorem will save the entries you add manually to the .gitignore file. Simply place those entries outside of the # (BEGIN/END) ignorem auto-gen tags.

An empty gitignore is below to demonstrate this:

# BEGIN ignorem auto-gen
# This gitingore was generated by ignorem version 1.0
# https://github.com/itsmaxymoo/ignorem
# DO NOT EDIT ANY TEXT INSIDE THE ignorem auto-gen tags!
# It will be overwritten next time ignorem is ran.
# Following this header are the loose ignores, or ignores added externally.
# After that, there are the ignores generated by ignorem.
# END ignorem auto-gen

(Place your manual entries here)

# BEGIN ignorem auto-gen
# Beginning of ignorem generated ignores.
# ignorem installed gitignores: 

(will contain pre-made gitignores)

# END ignorem auto-gen

Repositories

A repository is a file on a web server with instructions for downloading gitignores. A repository must be encoded as UTF-8, and follow the format:

<id> <url>
...

Where id is the name of the gitignore to be used in ignorem, and url is the url to the raw gitignore file.

For example:

c++ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/master/C++.gitignore
...

For a real example, see the default repository.