Reminder to all repository users: Please do not add , commit and push any data files to your remote git repositories. The disk space the Git server is limited, it wasn't dimensioned to host anything else than code. Solely your code files need versioning. The data inputs/outputs don't. A good idea is to do "git add" individually on each file you want to commit, to avoid versioning unwanted content.

Gitignores API

List gitignore templates

Get all gitignore templates.

GET /templates/gitignores
curl https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/templates/gitignores

Example response:

[
  {
    "name": "AppEngine"
  },
  {
    "name": "Laravel"
  },
  {
    "name": "Elisp"
  },
  {
    "name": "SketchUp"
  },
  {
    "name": "Ada"
  },
  {
    "name": "Ruby"
  },
  {
    "name": "Kohana"
  },
  {
    "name": "Nanoc"
  },
  {
    "name": "Erlang"
  },
  {
    "name": "OCaml"
  },
  {
    "name": "Lithium"
  },
  {
    "name": "Fortran"
  },
  {
    "name": "Scala"
  },
  {
    "name": "Node"
  },
  {
    "name": "Fancy"
  },
  {
    "name": "Perl"
  },
  {
    "name": "Zephir"
  },
  {
    "name": "WordPress"
  },
  {
    "name": "Symfony"
  },
  {
    "name": "FuelPHP"
  },
  {
    "name": "DM"
  },
  {
    "name": "Sdcc"
  },
  {
    "name": "Rust"
  },
  {
    "name": "C"
  },
  {
    "name": "Umbraco"
  },
  {
    "name": "Actionscript"
  },
  {
    "name": "Android"
  },
  {
    "name": "Grails"
  },
  {
    "name": "Composer"
  },
  {
    "name": "ExpressionEngine"
  },
  {
    "name": "Gcov"
  },
  {
    "name": "Qt"
  },
  {
    "name": "Phalcon"
  },
  {
    "name": "ArchLinuxPackages"
  },
  {
    "name": "TeX"
  },
  {
    "name": "SCons"
  },
  {
    "name": "Lilypond"
  },
  {
    "name": "CommonLisp"
  },
  {
    "name": "Rails"
  },
  {
    "name": "Mercury"
  },
  {
    "name": "Magento"
  },
  {
    "name": "ChefCookbook"
  },
  {
    "name": "GitBook"
  },
  {
    "name": "C++"
  },
  {
    "name": "Eagle"
  },
  {
    "name": "Go"
  },
  {
    "name": "OpenCart"
  },
  {
    "name": "Scheme"
  },
  {
    "name": "Typo3"
  },
  {
    "name": "SeamGen"
  },
  {
    "name": "Swift"
  },
  {
    "name": "Elm"
  },
  {
    "name": "Unity"
  },
  {
    "name": "Agda"
  },
  {
    "name": "CUDA"
  },
  {
    "name": "VVVV"
  },
  {
    "name": "Finale"
  },
  {
    "name": "LemonStand"
  },
  {
    "name": "Textpattern"
  },
  {
    "name": "Julia"
  },
  {
    "name": "Packer"
  },
  {
    "name": "Scrivener"
  },
  {
    "name": "Dart"
  },
  {
    "name": "Plone"
  },
  {
    "name": "Jekyll"
  },
  {
    "name": "Xojo"
  },
  {
    "name": "LabVIEW"
  },
  {
    "name": "Autotools"
  },
  {
    "name": "KiCad"
  },
  {
    "name": "Prestashop"
  },
  {
    "name": "ROS"
  },
  {
    "name": "Smalltalk"
  },
  {
    "name": "GWT"
  },
  {
    "name": "OracleForms"
  },
  {
    "name": "SugarCRM"
  },
  {
    "name": "Nim"
  },
  {
    "name": "SymphonyCMS"
  },
  {
    "name": "Maven"
  },
  {
    "name": "CFWheels"
  },
  {
    "name": "Python"
  },
  {
    "name": "ZendFramework"
  },
  {
    "name": "CakePHP"
  },
  {
    "name": "Concrete5"
  },
  {
    "name": "PlayFramework"
  },
  {
    "name": "Terraform"
  },
  {
    "name": "Elixir"
  },
  {
    "name": "CMake"
  },
  {
    "name": "Joomla"
  },
  {
    "name": "Coq"
  },
  {
    "name": "Delphi"
  },
  {
    "name": "Haskell"
  },
  {
    "name": "Yii"
  },
  {
    "name": "Java"
  },
  {
    "name": "UnrealEngine"
  },
  {
    "name": "AppceleratorTitanium"
  },
  {
    "name": "CraftCMS"
  },
  {
    "name": "ForceDotCom"
  },
  {
    "name": "ExtJs"
  },
  {
    "name": "MetaProgrammingSystem"
  },
  {
    "name": "D"
  },
  {
    "name": "Objective-C"
  },
  {
    "name": "RhodesRhomobile"
  },
  {
    "name": "R"
  },
  {
    "name": "EPiServer"
  },
  {
    "name": "Yeoman"
  },
  {
    "name": "VisualStudio"
  },
  {
    "name": "Processing"
  },
  {
    "name": "Leiningen"
  },
  {
    "name": "Stella"
  },
  {
    "name": "Opa"
  },
  {
    "name": "Drupal"
  },
  {
    "name": "TurboGears2"
  },
  {
    "name": "Idris"
  },
  {
    "name": "Jboss"
  },
  {
    "name": "CodeIgniter"
  },
  {
    "name": "Qooxdoo"
  },
  {
    "name": "Waf"
  },
  {
    "name": "Sass"
  },
  {
    "name": "Lua"
  },
  {
    "name": "Clojure"
  },
  {
    "name": "IGORPro"
  },
  {
    "name": "Gradle"
  },
  {
    "name": "Archives"
  },
  {
    "name": "SynopsysVCS"
  },
  {
    "name": "Ninja"
  },
  {
    "name": "Tags"
  },
  {
    "name": "OSX"
  },
  {
    "name": "Dreamweaver"
  },
  {
    "name": "CodeKit"
  },
  {
    "name": "NotepadPP"
  },
  {
    "name": "VisualStudioCode"
  },
  {
    "name": "Mercurial"
  },
  {
    "name": "BricxCC"
  },
  {
    "name": "DartEditor"
  },
  {
    "name": "Eclipse"
  },
  {
    "name": "Cloud9"
  },
  {
    "name": "TortoiseGit"
  },
  {
    "name": "NetBeans"
  },
  {
    "name": "GPG"
  },
  {
    "name": "Espresso"
  },
  {
    "name": "Redcar"
  },
  {
    "name": "Xcode"
  },
  {
    "name": "Matlab"
  },
  {
    "name": "LyX"
  },
  {
    "name": "SlickEdit"
  },
  {
    "name": "Dropbox"
  },
  {
    "name": "CVS"
  },
  {
    "name": "Calabash"
  },
  {
    "name": "JDeveloper"
  },
  {
    "name": "Vagrant"
  },
  {
    "name": "IPythonNotebook"
  },
  {
    "name": "TextMate"
  },
  {
    "name": "Ensime"
  },
  {
    "name": "WebMethods"
  },
  {
    "name": "VirtualEnv"
  },
  {
    "name": "Emacs"
  },
  {
    "name": "Momentics"
  },
  {
    "name": "JetBrains"
  },
  {
    "name": "SublimeText"
  },
  {
    "name": "Kate"
  },
  {
    "name": "ModelSim"
  },
  {
    "name": "Redis"
  },
  {
    "name": "KDevelop4"
  },
  {
    "name": "Bazaar"
  },
  {
    "name": "Linux"
  },
  {
    "name": "Windows"
  },
  {
    "name": "XilinxISE"
  },
  {
    "name": "Lazarus"
  },
  {
    "name": "EiffelStudio"
  },
  {
    "name": "Anjuta"
  },
  {
    "name": "Vim"
  },
  {
    "name": "Otto"
  },
  {
    "name": "MicrosoftOffice"
  },
  {
    "name": "LibreOffice"
  },
  {
    "name": "SBT"
  },
  {
    "name": "MonoDevelop"
  },
  {
    "name": "SVN"
  },
  {
    "name": "FlexBuilder"
  }
]

Single gitignore template

Get a single gitignore template.

GET /templates/gitignores/:key
Attribute Type Required Description
key string yes The key of the gitignore template
curl https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/templates/gitignores/Ruby

Example response:

{
  "name": "Ruby",
  "content": "*.gem\n*.rbc\n/.config\n/coverage/\n/InstalledFiles\n/pkg/\n/spec/reports/\n/spec/examples.txt\n/test/tmp/\n/test/version_tmp/\n/tmp/\n\n# Used by dotenv library to load environment variables.\n# .env\n\n## Specific to RubyMotion:\n.dat*\n.repl_history\nbuild/\n*.bridgesupport\nbuild-iPhoneOS/\nbuild-iPhoneSimulator/\n\n## Specific to RubyMotion (use of CocoaPods):\n#\n# We recommend against adding the Pods directory to your .gitignore. However\n# you should judge for yourself, the pros and cons are mentioned at:\n# https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/using-cocoapods.html#should-i-check-the-pods-directory-into-source-control\n#\n# vendor/Pods/\n\n## Documentation cache and generated files:\n/.yardoc/\n/_yardoc/\n/doc/\n/rdoc/\n\n## Environment normalization:\n/.bundle/\n/vendor/bundle\n/lib/bundler/man/\n\n# for a library or gem, you might want to ignore these files since the code is\n# intended to run in multiple environments; otherwise, check them in:\n# Gemfile.lock\n# .ruby-version\n# .ruby-gemset\n\n# unless supporting rvm < 1.11.0 or doing something fancy, ignore this:\n.rvmrc\n"
}