IgnoreBoy: A nix shell library for generating .gitignore from best practice templates

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Hey all,

I’ve had a really good time with managing development environments using devShells. One thing that always annoyed me was setting up my .gitignore files, as I would always end up walking around the internet for things to copy and paste.

This is a small tool/lib for managing and generating your .gitignore file in your project. You run it in your shellhook. I did this to scratch my own itch; and get more comfortable with Nix the Language™. It’s weird, but I think it has some benefits that are at the very least interesting.

Enjoy. Or not.

Thanks for looking!

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Just an update to this project. You can now also build your .gitignore against Toptal’s gitignore.io API.

Thanks for looking, again. :slight_smile:

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