Get gitignore from github/gitignore

README.md

Fetch and merge gitignore from Github

It is tool to fetch gitignore contents from https://github.com/github/gitignore, merge fetched contents and generate local .gitignore file.

Usage

example)

$ curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/attakei/98eb484cf013afd0d1ba/raw/f98b7ef8d87732363d2ccdb76ec9ef35151163d2/get_gitignore.py > get_gitignore
$ chmod +x get_gitignore
$ ./get_gitignoe Python

get_gitignore.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
from __future__ import unicode_literals
import sys
import os
import argparse

PY_VERSION = sys.version_info[0]

if PY_VERSION == 3:
    from http.request import urlopen
elif PY_VERSION == 2:
    from urllib2 import urlopen
else:
    print('error')
    exit(1)


URL_BASE = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/master/{}.gitignore'

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser('Get gitignore file from github')
parser.add_argument(
    'lang', metavar='LANG', type=str, nargs='+',
    help='use gitignore languages',
)

def main(argv):
    args = parser.parse_args(argv)
    ignore_contents = []
    for lang in args.lang:
        resp = urlopen(URL_BASE.format(lang))
        ignore_contents.append((lang, resp.read()))
    ignore_path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), '.gitignore')
    with open(ignore_path, 'w') as fp:
        write_global_header(fp)
        for (lang, content) in ignore_contents:
            write_lang_heaer(fp, lang)
            fp.write(content)
            fp.write('\n')


def write_global_header(fp):
    fp.write(
"""####################
# Generated by https://gist.github.com/attakei/98eb484cf013afd0d1ba
####################

"""
    )

def write_lang_heaer(fp, lang):
    fp.write(
"""########
# {}
########
""".format(lang)
    )


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main(sys.argv[1:])