These templates are also used by gitignore.io

I made a simple alias for generating a .gitignore using their service:

ignore = "!gi() { curl -L -s https://www.gitignore.io/api/$@ > .gitignore;}; gi"

Example usage:

git ignore 'node,osx'

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.