These templates are also used by gitignore.io<p>I made a simple alias for generating a .gitignore using their service:<p>ignore = "!gi() { curl -L -s <a href="https://www.gitignore.io/api/$@" rel="nofollow">https://www.gitignore.io/api/$@</a> > .gitignore;}; gi"<p>Example usage:<p>git ignore 'node,osx'<p>Note that the alias is potentially destructive! So some may prefer to do the output redirection themselves, especially if there is an existing .gitignore to which you wish to append.