Get-GitHubGitIgnore

NAME Get-GitHubGitIgnore



SYNOPSIS

Gets the list of available .gitignore templates, or their content, from GitHub.





SYNTAX

Get-GitHubGitIgnore [[-Name] <String>] [[-AccessToken] <String>] [-NoStatus] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm]

[<CommonParameters>]





DESCRIPTION

Gets the list of available .gitignore templates, or their content, from GitHub.



The Git repo for this module can be found here: http://aka.ms/PowerShellForGitHub





PARAMETERS

-Name <String>

The name of the .gitignore template whose content should be fetched.

Not providing this will cause a list of all available templates to be returned.



Required? false

Position? 1

Default value

Accept pipeline input? false

Accept wildcard characters? false



-AccessToken <String>

If provided, this will be used as the AccessToken for authentication with the

REST Api. Otherwise, will attempt to use the configured value or will run unauthenticated.



Required? false

Position? 2

Default value

Accept pipeline input? false

Accept wildcard characters? false



-NoStatus [<SwitchParameter>]

If this switch is specified, long-running commands will run on the main thread

with no commandline status update. When not specified, those commands run in

the background, enabling the command prompt to provide status information.

If not supplied here, the DefaultNoStatus configuration property value will be used.



Required? false

Position? named

Default value False

Accept pipeline input? false

Accept wildcard characters? false



-WhatIf [<SwitchParameter>]



Required? false

Position? named

Default value

Accept pipeline input? false

Accept wildcard characters? false



-Confirm [<SwitchParameter>]



Required? false

Position? named

Default value

Accept pipeline input? false

Accept wildcard characters? false



<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,

ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,

OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see

about_CommonParameters (https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).



INPUTS



OUTPUTS



-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------



PS C:\\>Get-GitHubGitIgnore



Returns the list of all available .gitignore templates.









-------------------------- EXAMPLE 2 --------------------------



PS C:\\>Get-GitHubGitIgnore -Name VisualStudio



Returns the content of the VisualStudio.gitignore template.











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