gibo (short for .gitignore boilerplates) is a command-line tool to help you easily access .gitignore boilerplates from github.com/github/gitignore.

$ gibo dump Swift Xcode >> .gitignore

For additional usage instructions, run gibo help.

brew install gibo

Or use the tap, which may be slightly more up-to-date:

brew install simonwhitaker/tap/gibo

On Windows, you can install gibo using Scoop:

scoop bucket add main
scoop install main/gibo

choco install gibo

go install github.com/simonwhitaker/gibo@latest

Clone the repo, then:

cd gibo
go install .

Download the latest release for your platform, then put gibo (or gibo.exe) somewhere on your path.

docker run --rm simonwhitaker/gibo

See the instructions at:

gibo completion

The glob .hgignore syntax for Mercurial is compatible with .gitignore syntax. This means that you can use gibo to generate .hgignore files, as long as the .hgignore files use the glob syntax:

echo 'syntax: glob' > .hgignore
gibo dump Python >> .hgignore

gibo was written by Simon Whitaker (@s1mn)