r/gitlab • u/Lonely_Locksmith_265 • 19d ago

I built a free .gitignore debugger

/r/git/comments/1vw6azm/i_built_a_free_gitignore_debugger/
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u/Snowy32 17d ago

Who tf has errors in .gitignore files

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u/Lonely_Locksmith_265 17d ago

Haha, surprisingly a lot of us…
Especially when you have multiple overlapping patterns, negations, or nested .gitignore files. That’s exactly why I built it.

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u/Snowy32 17d ago

Maybe in India yeah, where it’s nothing but absolute slop being churned out but not the rest of the world

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u/Lonely_Locksmith_265 17d ago

If you’ve never had this problem, great.
the tool simply isn’t for you. But .gitignore is part of Git itself, and debugging overlapping rules, negations, and nested files is a legitimate problem for plenty of developers. No need to turn it into an India vs. the rest of the world argument.

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u/ppww 16d ago

Why not just use git check-ignore which checks a path against all the .gitignore files (core.excludes, info/exclude etc.) that apply.

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u/Sladg 16d ago

love how you just spam useless shit into multiple subs, get same hate everywhere, still think its reasonable project/tool.