jakewmeyer / Zeus

⚡ CLI utility for autogenerating .gitignore files to STDOUT

CLI utility for autogenerating .gitignore files to STDOUT

Purpose

• This was written to solve a problem I had with copying and pasting from OS and Language gitignore sources
• The script automatically adds the correct OS .gitignore plus any number of languages you specify, all sent to STDOUT for easy redirection
• Uses the API provided by gitignore.io

Install / Setup

Build from Source

• Make sure you have the lastest version of crystal installed

$ git clone https://github.com/jakewmeyer/Zeus.git && cd zeus

$ crystal build src/zeus.cr --release

$ ./zeus

Usage

Overwrite existing .gitignore file

$ zeus > .gitignore

$ zeus crystal > .gitignore

$ zeus crystal ruby python > .gitignore

Append existing .gitignore file

$ zeus >> .gitignore