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Show HN: A simple app to create .gitignore files

by eg312 on 7/5/24, 11:02 AM with 5 comments

• by sea-gold on 7/5/24, 12:00 PM

  Looks very similar to Toptal gitignore.io[1][2]

  [1]: https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/

  [2]: https://github.com/toptal/gitignore.io

• by Something1234 on 7/8/24, 2:54 AM

  I have a shell function that does a similar thing. I just never got used to using it actively. Looks like your app is pretty’s cool

  https://www.henryschmale.org/2018/05/23/add-gitignore.html

• by pmdfgy on 7/7/24, 9:02 PM

  Am I the only one who creates them manually and add an entry only when I see a file that should not be committed when I "git status" ?

  I mean, .gitignore is a simple text file, editable from any tool. Why would anyone bother exporting such a file in JSON to then add it as a text file to a repository ?

  I'm sorry, but I don't see any actual usage for this. There is no point in having a bloated .gitignore with things you don't even use.

• by robofanatic on 7/8/24, 2:54 AM

  What does it do that I cant do in a notepad?