gitig

Generate .gitignore files from the command-line

gitig writes its output to stdout. Redirect the results to wherever makes sense for you, for example:

gi python > .gitignore

Installation

With cargo

gitig has an implementation in Rust (and an implementation in Python) and can be installed via cargo:

cargo install gitig-rs

With pipx

gitig is intended to be used as an end-user command-line application (i.e. not as a package's dependency). The easiest way to get started is with pipx:

pipx install gitig

With pip

gitig can also be installed via vanilla pip (or poetry, etc.):

pip install gitig

Usage

$ gi -h
usage: gi [-h] [-v] [--completion {bash,fish}] [--no-pager]
          [template [template ...]]

positional arguments:
  template              Template(s) to include in the generated .gitignore
                        file. If no templates are specified, display a list of
                        all available templates.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit
  --completion {bash,fish}
                        Generate a completion file for the selected shell.
  --no-pager            Write template list to stdout. By default, this
                        program attempts to paginate the list of available
                        templates for easier reading.

Examples

• List all available gitignore templates (using a pager if one is available):

  gi

• Generate a gitignore file for Python and Jupyter:

  gi python jupyternotebooks

Enable tab completion for Bash or Fish

gitig supports generating completion scripts for Bash and Fish. Below are commands to generate completion scripts for the various shells

For Bash, you will likely have to source (.) the generated tab completion script for it to take effect.

To enable tab completion on startup you can source the completion generated completion script in your .bashrc or .bash_profile.

Bash

gi --completion bash > /etc/bash_completion.d/gi.bash-completion

Bash (Homebrew)

gi --completion bash > $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/gi.bash-completion

Fish

gi --completion fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/gi.fish

Fish (Homebrew)

gi --completion fish > (brew --prefix)/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/gi.fish

API

CLI

gi # query gitignore.io and list available options

gi python jupyternotebooks # write a .gitingore file for python and jupyter to stdout

gi --completion bash # write generated bash autocompletion script to stdout
gi --completion fish # write generated fish autocompletion script to stdout

gi --version # write gitig version info to stdout

Autocompletion

gi <TAB><TAB>
1c                         1c-bitrix                  actionscript
ada                        adobe                      advancedinstaller          adventuregamestudio
agda                       al                         alteraquartusii            altium
...

$ gi python j<TAB><TAB>
jabref  jboss6          jekyll         jetbrains+iml  joe     jupyternotebooks
java    jboss-4-2-3-ga  jenv           jgiven         joomla  justcode
jboss   jboss-6-x       jetbrains      jigsaw         jspm
jboss4  jdeveloper      jetbrains+all  jmeter         julia

Rust API

gitig::list_templates();  // same as `gi`
gitig::create(vec!['python', 'jupyter']);  // same as `gi python jupyter`
gitig::bash_completion();  // same as `gi --completion bash`
gitig::fish_completion();  // same as `gi --completion fish`
gitig::VERSION;

Python API

import gitig

gitig.list_templates()  # same as `gi`
gitig.create(['python', 'jupyter'])  # same as `gi python jupyter`
gitig.bash_completion()  # same as `gi --completion bash`
gitig.fish_completion()  # same as `gi --completion fish`
gitig.__version__

Contributing

Rust

1. Fork the repo
2. Run cargo build
3. Run pre-commit install
4. Add your changes (adding/updating tests is always nice too)
5. Commit your changes + push to your fork
6. Open a PR

Python

1. Have or install a recent version of poetry (version >= 1.1)
2. Fork the repo
3. Setup a virtual environment (however you prefer)
4. Run poetry install
5. Run pre-commit install
6. Add your changes (adding/updating tests is always nice too)
7. Commit your changes + push to your fork
8. Open a PR