Comment by nathan_douglas
2 years ago
They pop up in code repositories too, depending on contents and whether the engineer in question noticed it.
2 years ago
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.
Totally correct. Files which are unrelated to the project don't belong in .gitignore.
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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.
Nah, those people have issues controlling their machines. It's fine if you upload useless spam a few times, but at some point you need to quit it because you're creating unnecessary work for others.
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