Simple bash script for appending files to `.gitignore`

Description

There are two ways. Ignore every listed file, ignore every file except listed ones. It's made so it does not duplicate files in .gitignore.

How to install?

Installation is very simple. Clone this repo and place your script where you want. I prefer to have it in my /usr/bin. You can set your CUSTOM_SCRIPT_NAME while installing. I have it just as ignore.

git clone https://github.com/hllvc/gitignore.git
cd gitignore/
sudo chmod a+x ignore
sudo mv ignore /usr/bin/CUSTOM_SCRIPT_NAME
cd .. && rm -rf gitignore/

How to use?

For demostration we will use script name as `ignore`!

Let's say we have directory with following files

myproject/
	main.tex
	main.log
	main.pdf
	main.aux
	pictures/
		pic1.jpg
		pic2.jpg
		pic3.jpg

and for example we want to ignore main.log, main.pdf, main.aux

Now there are two ways to use this script

All files added after ./ignore as argument are appended to .gitignore.

ignore main.log main.pdf main.aux

If you pass -e as first argument and then files, everything but those files is ignored

ignore -e main.tex pictures

after executing eiter of theese, our .gitignore will look like.

main.log
main.pdf
main.aux

Upcoming features

check if files have been deleted and clean .gitignore of those files
remove files from .gitignore
simplify if there has been nesting within directories

hllvc/gitignore

Simple bash script for appending files to .gitignore