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@@ -13,5 +13,9 @@ and easily bootstrap or extend a `.gitingore` file:
 getignore python go visualstudiocode macos >> .gitignore
 ```
 
+### Motivation
+
+There are similar tools [[1]](https://github.com/aswinkarthik/gitignore.cli) [[2]](https://github.com/vccolombo/download-gitignore) but they require a script interpreter. I wanted a static executable that I can copy to arbitrary [vscode devcontainers](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers). 
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