Comment by gregmac
2 years 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.
> 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.
Most of Mac's Unix utils come straight from FreeBSD without any special sauce from Apple.
Apple patches most of their utilities. This is frequently annoying when trying to track down what they did :)
They had the chance to get rid of DS_store, but they put it in MacOS anyway?
er. as the article says - it was created for OSX and not classic macOs
Ah that reminds me I committed a few last week and never cleaned it up..
Global ignore.