Select templates to build a .gitignore file.
Search and select languages, frameworks, and editors/OSes to combine into a single .gitignore file.
Templates are bundled with this page — a curated subset of the github/gitignore collection — and combined locally in your browser. Duplicate lines across selected templates are merged.
Yes — each selected template becomes its own labeled section, and a line already emitted by an earlier template is dropped if a later template repeats it, so the file doesn't accumulate duplicate entries.
.gitignore only affects untracked files. To stop tracking something already committed, run git rm --cached <file> (or -r for a directory), then commit that removal.
Common convention: keep language/framework patterns in the project's .gitignore (shared with your team), and put personal OS/IDE noise (.DS_Store, .idea/) in your global gitignore instead (git config --global core.excludesfile).
Not in this tool — it only combines the bundled templates. Copy the generated output and add your own lines afterward in your editor.
30 templates covering languages (Node, Python, Java, Go, Rust, Ruby, Swift, C#, C++, PHP, Elixir), frameworks (React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, Django, Flutter, Android, Unity), build tools (Gradle, Maven, Docker, Terraform), and editor/OS noise (macOS, Windows, Linux, VS Code, JetBrains, Vim, dotenv) — a curated subset of the github/gitignore collection.
No — templates are bundled into the site and merged entirely in your browser.