.gitignore without an initialized repo

[matthewmueller]

A lot of times when I'm just creating a project, I want to add a few files and directories to the .gitignore, before setting up git.

The behavior before was to just run git ignore node_modules and it would create a .gitignore file, not it's errors out with Not a git repo!. I understand why this is here, but it forces you to manually create the file and add these files before committing.

[spacewander]

Well, we can change the behaviour.
Instead of exiting, we can just warn the user that they are outside of a git repo.(Or there should be a git repo, in your case).
What about your opinion? @hemanth

[hemanth]

Well, I would just do git init && git ignore node_modules anyway one would have to do a git init and add the required.