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This VSCode IDE Extension Automatically Generates .gitignore Files For Your Coding Project
Jul 8, 2025
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Uh hello guys, welcome to this video. So
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in this video, I'll show you how to
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generate the git ignore files which is
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specially used inside uh git bash for
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your coding projects inside VS code. So
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if you go to extensions, this is
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actually the extension dot get ignore
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generator. If you just type this in the
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search bar, uh the very first extension
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which comes right here, it's developed
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by this person. It's almost having
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287,000
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downloads. So it generates this get
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ignore file automatically. So simply
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click the install button to install this
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extension. So once the extension is
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installed, it will be enabled globally.
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And now it's very easy to generate the
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git ignore files. Simply open your
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command pallet by the shortcut key
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control shiftp
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and just write here generate
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get ignore file and you will actually
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see this option appearing right here and
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simply select this option. After
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selecting this option by default it will
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be windows will be selected because
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you're generating on a windows machine.
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If your machine is different you can
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untoggle this option and visual studio
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is also selected.
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You can even open command pallet by
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going to view and open command pallet.
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And once you select this option generate
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get ignore file and here you can select
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from a various programming languages you
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will see in the inside the drop-down. So
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if you're developing it for NodeJS you
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simply select node here and simply
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select this node option.
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So just select your programming language
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in which project you're working and
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simply click okay. And as soon as you
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click okay, you will see it will
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generate this git ignore file
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automatically for you inside the root
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directory. And this g ignore file is
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very much necessary for git patch to
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actually tell which files to ignore. So
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you will see it has created this file
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automatically. So this will save you a
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lot of time. Simply
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install this extension and activate
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this. After activating it, you can
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generate git ignore files of any
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language.
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So it supports all these languages. You
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will see
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in the drop down here all the languages
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are there.
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So if you're developing for a specific
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project here Laravel you will see
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Laravel is also there and then
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automatically it will create this get
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ignore file. So in this easy way you can
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create this simply install this
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extension. Uh also check out my website
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freemediatools.com
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uh which contains thousands of tools.
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