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.DS_Store and CVS
Authored by: officemonkey on Jan 13, '03 02:50:26PM

Does anyone have an idea of how to get CVS to globally ignore the .DS_Store files?

Speaking of which.. What the heck are the .DS_Store files anyway?

Can I nuke them with impunity?



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.DS_Store and CVS
Authored by: bradrf on Jan 13, '03 02:58:06PM

You should be able to set the CVSIGNORE environment variable to contain .DS_Store.



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.cvsignore it
Authored by: mingking on Jan 13, '03 08:50:08PM

You can put .DS_Store in a .cvsignore file in your home directory.



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or use cvsignore in CVSROOT
Authored by: mingking on Jan 13, '03 09:01:03PM

If you have access to it you can also put .DS_Store in the cvsignore file in the CVSROOT project of a repository. That file is a global ignore for all users accessing that repository.

Oh, and .DS_Store files are used to store meta-data like icon positions within a window, custom icon settings, window size and location etc. You can delete them, but as soon as you open the window again with the Finder it will recreate a new one.



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