Create fully complete .gitignore files from the cli

There are a gazillion packages in pypi.org that "build" your .gitignore files.

The problem is, all download templates from a repository or another, and you need to instruct them to do so.

You could also ask your LLM to do it claude -p "update the .gitignore make it complete" or codex -p "update the .gitignore make it complete" but why would you waste tokens on something so simple?

So as far as I can tell we all still do it pretty much manually, piercing things from here and then, and then reusing them.

I build gitignorio-cli (command: gi) which does the .gitignore for your system, your project languages and the editor you are using automatically.

Create fully complete .gitignore files from the cli

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