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Re: should .subversion/config hint to ignore .DS_Store?

From: <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-08-09 03:57:09 CEST

Jack Repenning <jrepenning@collab.net> writes:

> The config file installed into ~/.subversion (or wherever your
> favorite platform puts these things) includes a commented-out section,
> [miscellany], which includes a commented-out global-ignores setting.
> While I realize this is all commented out, so very little will go
> horribly wrong if it's slightly incomplete, still it's useful
> documentation/hintage.
>
> I think maybe it should include ".DS_Store" in the list of things to
> global-ignore. This is a MacOS X thing; MacOS creates them freely in
> the HFS+ volumes. I think I used to know what they are, but I forget
> ;-) Google will show you several discussions about getting them into
> .cvsignore. Google wil also show you several .DS_Store files that
> have already been checked into Subversion repositories, e.g. at
> svn.sabi.net/.../ICeCoffEEE/. I very much suspect this was an error
> ;-)

Makes sense to me. But I'd like to hear other Mac-folk speak up on
this.

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