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As a non-Mac user, I always find it somewhat annoying when I download some .tgz published on Github or something and find .DS_Store littered inside. I guess ma
by gregmac 2y ago
As a non-Mac user, I always find it somewhat annoying when I download some .tgz published on Github or something and find .DS_Store littered inside.
I guess macos probably just uses GNU tar? It's kind of surprising it wasn't modified or configured by default to ignore .DS_Store.
- willsmith72 2y agoAh that reminds me I committed a few last week and never cleaned it up..
- tekknik 2y agoGlobal ignore.
- LeoPanthera 2y ago> It's kind of surprising it wasn't modified or configured by default to ignore .DS_Store. It was, but not by default. If you export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true then tar will skip .DS_Store files.
- sneed_chucker 2y agoMost of Mac's Unix utils come straight from FreeBSD without any special sauce from Apple.
- leptons 2y agoThey had the chance to get rid of DS_store, but they put it in MacOS anyway?
- pasc1878 2y agoer. as the article says - it was created for OSX and not classic macOs
- saagarjha 2y agoApple patches most of their utilities. This is frequently annoying when trying to track down what they did :)