SourceRepo 'toptal/gitignore' is no longer available.

[matracey]

It seems that something has happened to the toptal/gitignore repo, based on toptal/gitignore.io#669.

As a result, any attempt to use gig on a fresh install fails with Error: repo: failed to clone: authentication required (likely due to the repo being private).

$ gig gen node windows macos linux
Error: repo: failed to clone: authentication required
Usage:
  gig gen [template name] [flags]

Flags:
  -f, --file   if specified will create .gitignore file in the current working directory
  -h, --help   help for gen

Global Flags:
      --cache-path string    location where the content of github.com/toptal/gitignore
                             will be cached in (default "C:\\Users\\matracey\\AppData\\Local\\gig")
  -c, --commit-hash string   use templates from a specific commit hash of
                             github.com/toptal/gitignore

It seems like the suggested alternative is the github/gitignore project, which appears to be well maintained.

Might be worth exploring updating repo.go:11 to allow the source repo to be overridden as a global arg (maybe adding an init command to handle initialization / re-initialization of the local repo copy).

I will try to take this up and raise a PR.

[soimy]

Any updates?