git config --global alias.ignore \'!gi() { curl -sL https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/[email protected] ;}; gi'
echo "function gi() { curl -sL https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/\[email protected] ;}" >> \~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
echo "function gi() { curl -sLw "\n" https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/\[email protected] ;}" >> \~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc
printf "function gi\n\tcurl -sL https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/\$argv\nend\n" > \~/.config/fish/functions/gi.fish
echo "function gi() { curl -sL https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/\[email protected] ;}" >> \~/.bash_profile && source ~/.bash_profile
echo "function gi() { curl -sLw "\n" https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/\[email protected] ;}" >> \~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc
printf "function gi\n\tcurl -sL https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/\$argv\nend\n" > \~/.config/fish/functions/gi.fish
Paste the following scripts inside your PowerShell profile (run $profile
inside PowerShell to get the profile's location path).
#For PowerShell v3Function gig {param([Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string[]]$list)$params = ($list | ForEach-Object { [uri]::EscapeDataString($_) }) -join ","Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/$params" | select -ExpandProperty content | Out-File -FilePath $(Join-Path -path $pwd -ChildPath ".gitignore") -Encoding ascii}
#For PowerShell v2Function gig {param([Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string[]]$list)$params = ($list | ForEach-Object { [uri]::EscapeDataString($_) }) -join ","$wc = New-Object System.Net.WebClient$wc.Headers["User-Agent"] = "PowerShell/" + $PSVersionTable["PSVersion"].ToString()$wc.DownloadFile("https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/$params", "$PWD\.gitignore")}
Create a Command Line Prompt Script If you have installed msysgit), create gi.cmd
with content below. And copy it to C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\gi.cmd
, assuming msysgit
was installed to c:\Program Files\Git
. Make sure that C:\Program Files\Git\cmd
is added to the environment variable path
.
@rem Do not use "echo off" to not affect any child calls.@setlocal@rem Get the abolute path to the parent directory, which is assumed to be the@rem Git installation root.@for /F "delims=" %%I in ("%~dp0..") do @set git_install_root=%%~fI@for /F "delims=" %%I in ("%~dp0..") do @set git_mingw_root=%%~fI\mingw@if not exist "%git_mingw_root%" @set git_mingw_root=%git_install_root%\mingw64@set PATH=%git_install_root%\bin;%git_mingw_root%\bin;%PATH%@if not exist "%HOME%" @set HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%@if not exist "%HOME%" @set HOME=%USERPROFILE%@curl.exe -L -s https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/%*