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Lucas.T
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NPM - CLI tool to generate .gitignore file

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Generate .gitignore file with template for your project

Features ✨

Install 🐙 

npm i -g cligit
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Usage 💡 

cligit <commands> [options]
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OR

npx cligit <commands> [options]
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Use this if you don't want install this package globally.

Commands

Commands are optional but allow you to skip question for choosing template.

You can find the template availables in this github repository where template name is filename without the extension.

Example - Supposing you'like to create a .gitignore file and your project works with NodeJs you should run this cligit Node

Options

  • --path optional, The path to create the .gitignore file.

Exemples 🖍

With template name

cligit Node
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With custom path

cligit --path dev/foo/
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With template and custom path

cligit C --path dev/foo/
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Good code and have fun 🧑‍💻

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