Do not write your .gitignore if you are lazy

For some people it is well and good to have a nicely handcrafted .gitignore in their project. However, I myself am super lazy.

I do not want to have to answers like:

Save yourself some time and use gitignore.io.

I use a small shell function which allows me to live in the shell and create the file on the fly:

gi () {
  curl -sLw "\n" https://www.gitignore.io/api/$@
}

This way with a simple one liner gi gradle,java,intellij > .gitignore my newest project is safely git ignored.

Templates are plenty and updated regularly: https://github.com/toptal/gitignore

For oh-my-zsh users there is even a handy plugin with autocompletion.

Go get it.