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Ah yeah, someone else posted something similar to this before. I think their issue was due to the fact that they selected Xcode, objective-c and swift; some of which are just aliases of each other. You can check issue #83 for more details. That awk command is very handy; if we can figure out a way to roll that into the core, I think it will be very helpful.

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The way the project is setup, the swift and objective-c links are just an alias of xcode. You only need one of them, but I wanted to make it easier for people who were searching to find the one they need. I could probably check on load to see if you're running an aliased file and remove it from the results.

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Well, not exactly, it seems Xcode ignores does not include CocoaPods, but Swift and Objective-C do.

It would be great to just print out the first part, it contains everything needed for iOS/Mac development.

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All three of those templates come from the official GitHub gitignore repository. One thing that might be able to clean it up is that I was thinking about adding a .patch file type which would allow me to add/remove lines in some fashion to clean up templates for cases like this. I haven't had time to really work on that feature, but a patch would basically define what should be included when a gi is run and multiple file types should be merged.

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Another thing I've found which is highly related to this, is that identical ignores are not eliminated when combining languages - for example: https://www.gitignore.io/api/python%2Cc%2Cc%2B%2B

Notice that *.so has been included 3 times, once for every language (in this case, Python, C and C++).

I was able to trim down about 60 lines of the file by putting it through this little bit of awk magic I found on stack overflow:

awk '!seen[$0]++' .gitignore

Solving this particular issue would not solve the issue around similar ignores, but might be a fair stopping-point pending addressing the main issue.

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Thanks @joeblau , glad you find it helpful! I'm pretty sure there'll be a straightforward way of replicating its functionality within Node. I'm not very familiar with this codebase and am not a pro Node dev, but I'd be interested in having a look around (may need you to point me in the right direction 😉) to see if I can get something working.
Let me know what you think

Btw, sorry for such a late reply, I wish there were a way to 'mark as unread' or 'reply later' on github notifications...

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Have implemented that stop-gap solution I mentioned, PR #227

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#227 Removes duplicate lines so if you have similar ignores, you still wont have duplicate lines in the template. This doesn't account for comments yet, but it's a good start.

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