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Posted by Matt Wilderson
Matt Wilderson
1,038 Points

How do you create a .gitignore file without the sublime method?

Can't seem to save a file as .gitignore.

2 Answers

gregsmith5
gregsmith5
32,615 Points

First, try doing 'Save-As' instead of just 'Save' in your text editor. Otherwise...

In Mac OS X/Linux, you can go into the terminal and type:

$ touch .gitignore

Windows makes this a bit more complicated to do in the command line (as always...), so in Explorer you can right-click in your folder and select New > Text Document, name it .gitignore and make sure you delete the .txt from the end of the file.

Keep in mind that the period in front of the filename makes it a hidden file, so you may have a hard time finding it. Your operating system has a way of showing hidden files, and I suggest you do that.

jsdevtom
jsdevtom
16,963 Points
jsdevtom
jsdevtom
16,963 Points

Hi.

The documentation for the Brackets Command Line arguments are here: https://github.com/adobe/brackets/wiki/Command-Line-Arguments

Their sites says this:

Examples

Open a file in the current folder, without switching projects: brackets index.html

Open two files from a specific path, without switching projects: brackets ~/Sites/index.html ~/Sites/index.css

Open the current folder as a project in Brackets: brackets .

Open a specific folder as a project in Brackets: brackets ~/Sites/mysite

So basically, you just need to type in brackets . as long as you are in the write folder in the command line, you will be brought to the project folder in Brackets. From here you can just make a new file as you normally would.

Unfortunately, the ZSH terminal creates a load of errors after this (but works fine). I am not an expert (by any means) so I don't know if it is important. However, it works. Just quit out of it using Crtl + C once you go back to the terminal.

:-)