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This is a great guide. I followed the similar steps for https://gitignore.io https://gitignore.io I was doing a lot of development work and going to github.co

This is a great guide. I followed the similar steps for https://gitignore.io https://gitignore.io I was doing a lot of development work and going to github.com/github/gitignore to copy templates from GitHub's website to my own file system was getting tedious. What I wanted was a simple command line tool like gi java > .gitignore So I built it over the course of a week while at Mammoth CA. I was on a snowboard trip so I would ride during the day and code at night. I was thankful to have a great designer (who worked at GitHub) help me design the site. And today the project is almost 5 years old and gets nearly 80,000 MAU's.

onion2k 9y ago
A little feedback - it seems a bit mixed up. If I put in "Node" it assumes I want suggestions for files that you'd typically ignore on a Node project. That's useful. But if I enter "Web" it gives me a list of web file types to ignore (*.html etc). Rather than assume I'm working on a web project (as it does for Node) it's doing the opposite of that, and making suggestions to ignore all the "Web" files. Clearly this isn't a huge problem as your project is doing really well, but it jumped out at me a bit.
- joeblau 9y ago
  The history on this is that originally, templates like Web, Compressed, Audio, Video, etc... were added to ignore an entire domain's tele tapes instead of assuming that you're working on any of those types of projects. Right now, there isn't anything that differentiates the domain specific templates from a language, IDE, or operating system template. Not sure how to improve the experience off the top of my head but I'll think about it. Good feedback.
_sdegutis 9y ago
This idea sounds like a good use for ‘choose’ [1]. It’d be a bash script that uses curl to get a list of the languages with gitignores, pipes to choose to let the user choose one, and pipes it into curl again to get the gitignore contents and sends to stdout. [1] https://github.com/sdegutis/choose https://github.com/sdegutis/choose
- joeblau 9y ago
  That looks cool. Most of the time I was running into problems, I was on a remote server with no access to a GUI, but this does look like a cool integration.
poyu 9y ago
Hey, thanks for the site! I use it all the time! Great tool to have!
- joeblau 9y ago
  You're welcome. Glad it's helping.

onion2k 9y ago

A little feedback - it seems a bit mixed up. If I put in "Node" it assumes I want suggestions for files that you'd typically ignore on a Node project. That's useful. But if I enter "Web" it gives me a list of web file types to ignore (*.html etc). Rather than assume I'm working on a web project (as it does for Node) it's doing the opposite of that, and making suggestions to ignore all the "Web" files. Clearly this isn't a huge problem as your project is doing really well, but it jumped out at me a bit.

joeblau 9y ago
The history on this is that originally, templates like Web, Compressed, Audio, Video, etc... were added to ignore an entire domain's tele tapes instead of assuming that you're working on any of those types of projects. Right now, there isn't anything that differentiates the domain specific templates from a language, IDE, or operating system template. Not sure how to improve the experience off the top of my head but I'll think about it. Good feedback.

_sdegutis 9y ago

This idea sounds like a good use for ‘choose’ [1]. It’d be a bash script that uses curl to get a list of the languages with gitignores, pipes to choose to let the user choose one, and pipes it into curl again to get the gitignore contents and sends to stdout. [1] https://github.com/sdegutis/choose https://github.com/sdegutis/choose

joeblau 9y ago
That looks cool. Most of the time I was running into problems, I was on a remote server with no access to a GUI, but this does look like a cool integration.

poyu 9y ago

Hey, thanks for the site! I use it all the time! Great tool to have!

joeblau 9y ago
You're welcome. Glad it's helping.