Never Write a .gitignore by Hand Again — Build an Auto-Detecting Generator CLI

Every developer has been there. You spin up a new project, write some code, run git status, and suddenly you're staring at a wall of node_modules/, __pycache__/, .DS_Store, and build artifacts. So you open a browser, search for "gitignore template for Node," copy-paste it into a file, realize you also need Python rules because your project has a scripts folder, search again, merge the two by hand, and hope you didn't miss anything. This is a solved problem — we just keep solving it the hard way. The .gitignore Problem A .gitignore file is deceptively simple. It's just a list of patterns telling Git which files to skip. But maintaining one by hand introduces three recurring headaches: 1. You forget entries. Every language ecosystem has its own set of generated artifacts — dist/, *.pyc, target/, vendor/ — and nobody memorizes them all. One forgotten entry means accidentally committing a 200 MB binary or leaking an .env file with production credentials. 2. Multi-language projects are pain