Joe – CLI Python tool for generating .gitignore files (github.com)

32 points by kermit666 10y ago ↗ HN

11 comments

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dozzie 10y ago ↗

You may want to rename your project.

http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/

rbadaro 10y ago ↗

Agree. A good few years ago a large part of students at my uni used joe as their linux editor.

baldfat 10y ago ↗

They already are https://github.com/karan/joe/issues/30

They were going with gi but that conflicts with gitignore.io

Someone else thought gi-joe and that is an Awesome name!

shoo 10y ago ↗

positive feedback: pretty well-presented, with a nice readme

negative feedback: the time required to run joe (including remember that it exists, possibly installing it, how to invoke it correctly) is going to be similar to the time required to just manually write a ignore file / copy and edit one from a previous project in the same language.

simula67 10y ago ↗

Been using https://www.gitignore.io/ with a lot of success

nicwest 10y ago ↗

There is a cool oh-my-zsh plugin for this:

https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/blob/master/plugin...

baldfat 10y ago ↗

https://www.gitignore.io/docs

gitignore already has this and no need for a plugin.

$ echo "function gi() { curl -L -s https://www.gitignore.io/api/\$@ ;}" >> ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc

filmor 10y ago ↗

What advantage does this have over just grabbing the file from https://github.com/github/gitignore directly?

kermit666 10y ago ↗

Saves time, I guess. The same reason you'd wanna use something like `howdoi` to get StackOverflow answers directly inside the terminal.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/14286317/544059

stdbrouw 10y ago ↗

Alternatively

    gitignore() {
        wget \
        https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/master/Global/OSX.gitignore \
        https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/master/$1.gitignore \
        -O .gitignore
    }

caarlos0 10y ago ↗

1 line shell function that does the same thing:

https://github.com/caarlos0/dotfiles/blob/master/git/aliases...