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`gleam new` overwrites `.gitignore`. #2685

Closed computerscience-person closed 3 months ago

computerscience-person commented 3 months ago

I'm using gleam for the first time inside NixOS with devenv, and devenv scaffolds the project directory with its own .gitignore. However, when using gleam new in a directory with an existing .gitignore, it needs to delete the old .gitignore, or the command just fails. Should this be the behavior of gleam new? Or should I just scaffold the project manually? If so, is there a guide as to doing the scaffolding manually?

lpil commented 3 months ago

Hello! That's the intended behaviour of gleam new, yes. If you want to make a Gleam project manually then you can make this gleam.toml.

name = "app"
version = "1.0.0"

[dependencies]
gleam_stdlib = "~> 0.34 or ~> 1.0"

[dev-dependencies]

The documentation for this can be found here: https://gleam.run/writing-gleam/gleam-toml/

salif commented 3 months ago

@lpil - In my opinion, if a .gitignore file already exists, then gleam new should append to the file, not overwrite it