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<p align="center"> <a href="https://www.gitignore.io"> <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/toptal/gitignore/master/.github/gitignore-templates.svg" /> </a> <br> <small>The largest collection of useful <code>.gitignore</code> templates</small> </p> <br> <p align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/toptal/gitignore/tree/master/templates"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Templates-500%2B-FF5722.svg?longCache=true&style=flat-square" alt="template count"></a> <a href="https://travis-ci.com/toptal/gitignore"><img src="https://img.shields.io/travis/toptal/gitignore/master?longCache=true&style=flat-square" alt="build status"></a> <a href="https://github.com/toptal/gitignore/blob/master/LICENSE.md"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/license/toptal/gitignore.svg?longCache=true&style=flat-square" alt="license"></a> </p>

About

This project is also the canonical repository where https://www.gitignore.io template list comes from. Here are the reasons behind the need for this repository: https://blog.joeblau.com/gitignore-io-template-fork

Testing

This testing process ensures that https://www.gitignore.io template list contains all of the changes from GitHub's template list. The CI system will automatically listen to commits from GitHub and merge any changes.

  1. Pre-requisites
pip install moban
  1. Sync repository with GitHub and copy templates
./.github/scripts/sync-github.sh
moban
  1. Make sure you don't commit files with blank lines or missing EOF line
./.github/scripts/check-whitespace.sh

Files

There are four file types that gitignore.io recognizes

  1. Templates

    A .gitignore file is the foundation of all templates. Each .gitignore file contains gitignore information related to the title of the file. For example, Go.gitignore contains a gitignore template that is used when creating a project using the Go programming language.

    <p align="center"> <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/toptal/gitignore/master/.github/gitignore.svg" /> </p>

  2. Patch

    A .patch is a file to extend the functionality of a template. The source for some of the template files on toptal/gitignore come from github/gitignore. GitHub maintains strict contributing guidelines and the .patch file allows anyone to extend any of the templates to add extra template rules

    <p align="center"> <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/toptal/gitignore/master/.github/patch.svg" /> </p>

  3. Stack

    A .stack is a file that allows for the creation of code stacks (LAMP, MEAN, React Native). In today's development environment a .gitignore file is usually comprised of multiple technologies. A stack creates an elegant way to keep the stack up to date with child dependencies.

    <p align="center"> <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/toptal/gitignore/master/.github/stack.svg" /> </p>

  4. Order

    The order file simply ensure that if certain templates are requested, the order in which the templates are loaded is maintained.