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gitnr
A cross-platform CLI utility to create .gitignore
files using templates.
- Use templates from the GitHub & TopTal collections
- Use local files and remote URLs as templates
- Filter out duplicate ignore lines when using multiple templates
- Interactive mode to search and select templates
- Cross-platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux, NetBSD)
# Create an ignore file for Rust with CLion IDE
gitnr create gh:Rust tt:clion+all
# Interactively search and select templates
gitnr search
Table of Contents
Install & Update
Linux & Mac
Run any of the commands below in your terminal to get the latest version of gitnr
.
Install system-wide
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reemus-dev/gitnr/main/scripts/install.sh | sudo bash -s
Install for current user
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reemus-dev/gitnr/main/scripts/install.sh | bash -s -- -u
On Linux this defaults to $HOME/.local/bin
and on macOS to $HOME/bin
. The script will fail if the directory doesn't exist or is not in your system path.
Install in specific directory
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reemus-dev/gitnr/main/scripts/install.sh | bash -s -- -d <dir>
Windows
Run the command below in a PowerShell terminal to install the latest version of gitnr
.
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope Process; iex (iwr "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reemus-dev/gitnr/main/scripts/install.ps1").Content
Cargo
Install and compile the latest version from crates.io with the command below.
cargo install gitnr
Cargo Binstall
Install the binary directly using cargo-binstall
.
cargo-binstall gitnr
Binary Download
See the releases page to download a binary and then add it to a directory in your system path.
NetBSD
On NetBSD a pre-compiled binary is available from the official repositories. To install it, simply run:
pkgin install gitnr
From Source
git clone --depth=1 github.com/reemus-dev/gitnr
cd gitnr
cargo install --path .
Note: This requires that you have Rust and cargo installed on your system.
Usage
There are 3 commands available
Command | Description |
---|---|
create |
Create a .gitignore file and print the content to stdout or save it to a file |
search |
Interactive mode to search and select templates from the GitHub and TopTal collections. You can then copy the result to your clipboard or copy the relevant create command to generate your ignore file |
help |
Display the CLI help message with available flags & commands |
Create
The create command accepts a list of templates to generate a .gitignore
file with.
gitnr create [FLAGS] [TEMPLATES]...
Create Template Arguments
Templates can be provided to the CLI as:
- Space separated or comma separated values
- With or without their source prefix
The following template sources are available:
Template Sources | Prefix |
---|---|
URL | url: |
File | file: |
GitHub (a file from any public repo) | repo: |
GitHub Templates | gh: |
GitHub Community Templates | ghc: |
GitHub Global Templates | ghg: |
TopTal Templates | tt: |
For example:
# With prefix
gitnr create gh:Node
# Without prefix
gitnr create Node
# Combining templates - a project using Node.js + Vue in WebStorm
gitnr create gh:Node ghc:JavaScript/Vue tt:webstorm+all
# Using a remote URL and local file
gitnr create url:https://domain.com/template.gitignore file:path/to/local.template.gitignore
# Using a file from a GitHub repo
gitnr create repo:github/gitignore/main/Rust.gitignore
If you do not prefix the template, the CLI will try to automatically detect the template source. If it can't match the template name to a source, it defaults to checking the GitHub template collection. It's advised to be explicit about the source prefix to avoid any ambiguity.
Templates from the GitHub and TopTal collections do not need to have the .gitignore
, .stack
or .patch
suffixes. Meaning you can use gh:Rust
instead of gh:Rust.gitignore
or tt:webstorm+all
instead of tt:webstorm+all.patch
.
The generated template will be created in the order of the template arguments supplied.
[!NOTE] The TopTal template collection includes
stacks
andpatches
. A stack specifies multiple ignore templates that are combined, e.g.Angular.stack
. The patch extension add modifications to the original template from GitHub's collection.
Create Flags
By default, the resulting .gitignore template is printed to stdout
. You can customize this behaviour using the CLI flags available:
Flag | Short | Description |
---|---|---|
--save |
-s |
Write template to .gitignore file in current directory (overwriting any exiting file) |
--file <path> |
-f <path> |
Write template to the specified file path overwriting any exiting file |
--refresh | -r | Refresh the template cache (templates are cached for 1 hour by default) |
Search
The search command allows you to interactively browse, filter and select templates from the GitHub and Toptal collections.
gitnr search
This is useful when you want to see what's available and preview different template combinations. You will be able to preview an individual template as well as preview a template combination.
The search command only has one flag, which is --refresh | -r
. This allows you to refresh the template cache which by default caches the template collections for 1 hour. This is to avoid hitting the API rate-limits.
Why This Exists?
- I wanted a way to template my
.gitignore
files for all projects to keep things consistent. - I wanted to build a
.gitignore
from multiple templates to keep things modular - I wanted to build something with Rust and learn the language
- And apparently I wanted to waste more time than I'd like to on a simple side project 😅
Contributing
Open a PR or create an issue with any suggestions. Given this is my first Rust application, veterans will probably spot a lot of things that can be improved, refactored or removed. So feel free to open a PR or issue with any suggestions.
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