gig

made this to easily create .gitignore file in any systems.
built on Linux with dotnet 8.0.

As it is self contained and single-file , No dotnet installation is required

gitignore of this project is created with this tool !!

Update : 2025/12/22
Reduced net call by downloading the tar.gz in .gig folder. and use that as source.

Usage

• create a local git repository with

git init

• use gig to create gitignore for preferred language or common framework like below

# for cpp
gig cpp
# for unity
gig unity 
# for dotnet 
gig dotnet

• to get the full list of type command

gig
# or 

gig help

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Build project

required to build : dotnet 8.0

Linux

• publish release build (self contained , single file)

dotnet publish -c Release -r linux-x64 --self-contained true -p:PublishSingleFile=true

• make executable

chmod +x bin/Release/net8.0/linux-x64/publish/gig

• copy to correct place for system-wide terminal access

sudo cp  bin/Release/net8.0/linux-x64/publish/gig /usr/local/bin/

Windows

• publish release build (self contained , single file)

dotnet publish -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained true -p:PublishSingleFile=true

• copy the build to C:\bin
• add C:\bin to environment path