Comment by al_borland
2 years ago
For those who live their whole life within Apple's walls, they will never see .DS_Store files, unless they use the Terminal. Finder (with hidden files shown) doesn't even show them anymore.
It is very ugly when files are shared from a Mac to people on Windows though. I think it gives a bad first impression for anyone who might be thinking of transitioning to the Mac.
They pop up in code repositories too, depending on contents and whether the engineer in question noticed it.
absolutely essential to add a line for .DS_Store in every .gitignore, unfortunately.
Enough to teach people to use a global git core.excludesfile, IMO.
Same place you should put rules for Emacs / Vim swap files.
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or just ignore them globally once.
I've banned people before because they couldn't stop themselves from continuously uploading those useless ds files
Seems like you have control issues.
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