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+# Ahoy support for Drupal projects
+
+This is a composer plugin which prepares your local development environment for Ahoy using the framework from [Ahoy-CLI](https://github.com/ahoy-cli/ahoy).
+
+If you [installed Ahoy-CLI](https://github.com/ahoy-cli/ahoy#installation) globally once you can use it in Drupal projects without any further configuration.
diff --git a/src/Handler.php b/src/Handler.php
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--- a/src/Handler.php
+++ b/src/Handler.php
@@ -85,6 +85,17 @@ class Handler {
     }
     $file = getcwd() . '/.ahoy.yml';
     file_put_contents($file, $rendered = Yaml::dump($ahoy, 9, 2));
+    $this->git('ignore ' . '.ahoy.yml');
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Wrapper for git command in the root directory.
+   *
+   * @param string $command
+   *   Git command name, arguments and/or options.
+   */
+  protected function git($command) {
+    passthru(escapeshellcmd('git -c "user.email=d8-project@lakedrops.com" ' . $command));
   }
 
 }