get gitignore templates in the shell

getignore is a CLI client for GitHub's .gitignore templates. List and print gitignore templates for a wide variety of languages from the terminal.

List available languages with:

getignore --list

and easily bootstrap or extend a .gitingore file:

getignore python go visualstudiocode macos >> .gitignore

Motivation

There are similar tools [1] [2] but they require a script interpreter. I wanted a static executable that I can copy to arbitrary vscode devcontainers.