From deadcd64a5ca08bf05c57d76080b4db9c724d861 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonhnny Weslley <jw@jonhnnyweslley.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 12:03:31 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] git-ignore template support. Templates are based in
 https://github.com/github/gitignore

---
 .gitmodules    |  3 +++
 Readme.md      |  3 +++
 bin/git-ignore | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 etc/gitignore  |  1 +
 4 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 .gitmodules
 create mode 160000 etc/gitignore

diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bfa6d33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "etc/gitignore"]
+	path = etc/gitignore
+	url = git://github.com/github/gitignore.git
diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
index f2facca..1ad8c79 100644
--- a/Readme.md
+++ b/Readme.md
@@ -178,6 +178,9 @@ of commits included in the commitish:
    *.o
    *.log 
 
+  Adding patterns from an existing template:
+    $ git ignore -t rails
+
 ## git-delete-branch &lt;name&gt;
 
  Deletes local and remote branch _name_.
diff --git a/bin/git-ignore b/bin/git-ignore
index 625a9e6..47f084a 100755
--- a/bin/git-ignore
+++ b/bin/git-ignore
@@ -1,7 +1,25 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
+template=""
+while getopts "t:" opt; do
+  case "$opt" in
+    t) template=$OPTARG;shift;shift;;
+  esac
+done
+
+if [ ! -z "$template" ]; then
+  gitignoredir="`dirname $0`/../etc/gitignore"
+  selected_template=$(find $gitignoredir -type f -name *.gitignore | xargs -i basename {} .gitignore | grep -i $template)
+  count=$(echo $selected_template | wc -w)
+  case "$count" in
+    0) echo "The pattern '$template' does not match any available templates." && exit 1;;
+    1) find $gitignoredir -name $selected_template.gitignore -exec cat {} \; >> .gitignore && echo "... added patterns from template '$selected_template'";;
+    *) echo "Be more specific. $count macthes found:\n$selected_template" && exit 2;;
+  esac
+fi
+
 if test $# -eq 0; then
-  test -f .gitignore && cat .gitignore
+  test -z $template && test -f .gitignore && cat .gitignore
 else
   for pattern in $@; do
     echo $pattern >> .gitignore
diff --git a/etc/gitignore b/etc/gitignore
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..0a41318
--- /dev/null
+++ b/etc/gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 0a41318dba7094f7f97646280a0096e30b6cd596