Gitgen

Generate license and gitignore files from Go without an internet connection. It also has a convenience CLI, but can be used as a library as well.

This is a library to generate .gitignore and LICENSE files directly from Go, locally and without the need for an internet connection or external APIs. It takes advantage of the embed package aded in Go 1.16 to embed multiple .gitignore and license templates in the library, and provides functions to interact with them.

With this package you can directly get the text of the files as a string, use the license templates with your parameters to directly generate LICENSE files with the required year and author, and even write to any io.Writer, such as files or http.ResponseWriter

Examples

Get the text of a .gitignore template

nodeGitIgnore := gitgen.GetIgnoreText("Node")
println(nodeGitIgnore) // prints the entire .gitignore file for Node

Write a .gitignore to a file

f, err := os.Create(".gitignore")
defer f.Close()

// Do something with the error

_, err = gitgen.WriteIgnore("Java", f)

// Do something with the error

Get the text of a LICENSE template

mitLic := gitgen.GetLicenseText("mit")
println(mitLic) // prints the entire LICENSE

Write a LICENSE to a file

f, err := os.Create("LICENSE")
defer f.Close()

// Do something with the error

_, err = gitgen.WriteLicense("mit", f)

// Do something with the error

Get the text of a LICENSE template, but with YEAR and NAME parameters

mitLic := gitgen.GetLicWithParams("mit", "eacp", "2021")
println(mitLic) // prints the entire LICENSE with the name and the year

Write a LICENSE to a file with name and year

f, err := os.Create("LICENSE")
defer f.Close()

// Do something with the error

_, err = gitgen.WriteLicWithParams("mit", "eacp", "2021", f)

// Do something with the error

Testing

You can test the package by using the go test command. It has been tested on Windows and Linux. Mac testing is pending.

CLI

I also made a CLI around the library for conveniance purposes. Go to the cli folder, execute it and use cli help for more information. The cli can also be tested by using the go testcommand