Git Alias for Quickly Adding .gitignore Files from GitHub

I'm not sure about you - but I am really tired of creating a new project in Visual Studio, and then setting up the .gitignore file to do it's thing.

So, I decided to make a quick little alias to sort it out for me.

GitHub have done a great thing and open-sourced their default ignore files - which is an excellent baseline for a new project.

Since I'm in the shell (having just created a new repository) - it makes sense to quickly get my ignores file while I am there!

$ git ignores

How did I do this?

I simply added this to my Git config:

[alias]
  ignores = !(curl -o .gitignore https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/master/VisualStudio.gitignore)

Now, I can simply:

• Create my new project/solution
• git init
• git ignores

... and I'm all set!

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