.gitignore
Dev tools
gitignore generator
SHOW HN2013
22points
8comments
#958of 1,739 in 2013
Top 56%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Idea: 1 for, 0 against
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful and saves the hassle of copying from github's gitignore project
From 2 comments
Love it. I keep trying to paste stuff from github's gitignore project, but it's always too much of a hassle. This fixes it :)
dguaraglia on HNIt's very useful. I noticed that it doesn't show Xcode in the auto-completion list, like it shows Visual Studio, Vim etc.
gbtxg on HN
Objections
Missing some editor and IDE templates such as Xcode
From 1 comment
It's very useful. I noticed that it doesn't show Xcode in the auto-completion list, like it shows Visual Studio, Vim etc.
gbtxg on HN
Requests
Add a submission form for users to contribute their own templates
From 2 comments
Please add a option "joe" (the editor joe), including *~ (file backups) and DEADJOE (gets created when joe crashes). Also, I miss a "submission" form for users to add their own…
mschuster91 on HNYep, that's where I got the core of the templates. They don't accept all .gitignore templates though unless you provide > Up-to-date, canonical documentation that mentions the…
joeblau on HN
Add the joe editor template
From 2 comments
Please add a option "joe" (the editor joe), including *~ (file backups) and DEADJOE (gets created when joe crashes). Also, I miss a "submission" form for users to add their own…
mschuster91 on HNJOE is added :). I'll look into a way take submissions. http://gitignore.io/api/joe
joeblau on HN
Alternatives named
github/gitignore repository
From 1 comment
You could try to partially reuse: https://github.com/github/gitignore Which try to be a gitignore database.
gcmalloc on HN