If ever played with GIT, then you might encountered a tedious situation, where you need create a .gitignore file for every repository even if many of your repositories share the same .gitignore file. Some of you might have stored these .gitignore files for various projects, however, the manual copy and paste are still tedious. Are there any tools that can help us “play against” .gitignore easier? In this post, we will introduce you one of such tools.

Requirements

• Sublime Text
• Sublime-Gitignore

Install & Usage

Please refer to the corresponding “official site” of Sublime Text or Sublime-Gitignore.

Customization

Of course, the template provided in Sublime-Gitignore might not satisfy your requirements. Then, you can customize the templates. Before that, you need another sublime text plugin (at least for sublime text 3), that is PackageResourceViewer.

• First, you need extract the package Sublime-Gitignore (HOWTO: please refer to the “official site” of PackageResourceViewer)
• Second, dive into the directory of all templates in Sublime-Gitignore (i.e., the sub-directory boilerplates under the root directory of package Sublime-Gitignore)
• Third, create or edit the corresponding .gitignore template