lq

A CLI tool to add .gitignore and LICENSE to your projects right from your terminal

Motivation

I wanted a simple CLI tool to generate .gitignore and LICENSE templates. I regularly forget to add these files and don’t want to do it manually. GitHub CLI (gh repo new) already asks about these, but its a command to init new repos, what about already initialized git repos? For this I built a focused tool just for .gitignore and LICENSE generation.

Tech choice: Go + Bubble Tea is the best fit here: minimal, clean, and fast for a TUI.

Installation

Install Script

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bakayu/lq/master/install.sh | bash

Go install

go install github.com/bakayu/lq/cmd/lq@latest

From Releases

• Download the latest binary from: https://github.com/bakayu/lq/releases/latest

Usage

After installation just type in your terminal:

lq

Screenshots

Invoking the CLI

Generating .gitignore templates

Generating LICENSE templates

License

MIT LICENSE