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.DS_Store (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] kipo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Blue Harvest for Mac will continually clean your removable drives of these files.

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[–] FatTony@lemm.ee 24 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I am not exactly a programmer. What is the .DS_Store file for?

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I learned of those files outside the context of programming. When program or file zip packages contained these random ds store files and I looked up what they are.

Turns out, it's metadata ~~caching~~ for macOS. Irrelevant and does not belong into [distributed or shared] packages.

/edit: It's been a long time ago. Looking at it again, I guess it adds folder metadata, so it could be useful when distributing to other macOS. But for other OS, it's noise. Either way, usually it's not intentionally included.

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[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 29 points 2 days ago (19 children)

Just gitignore that. Same for dot idea and whatever vscode adds, if anything

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ya, but that .idea is not inserted in eleven thousand sub folders.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 15 points 2 days ago

It's not, but I still prefer not pushing my config on others, or others pushing theirs on me.

[–] MissingInteger@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago

You can add .DS Store in your global gitignore at ~/config/git/ignore

[–] andioop@programming.dev 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

git add . > git commit -m "initial" > git push

Later when I git status or just look at the repo online… "oh crap I let .DS_Store in didn't I…" and then I remember to set up a .gitignore and make a new commit to take out the .DS_Store and put in the .gitignore.

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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

As much as they love to sue people, I don't understand why Nintendo doesn't go after Apple for trademark infringement, so that they're forced to finally come up with a better method of storing folder attributes.

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[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Linux user has been here.

How can you tell?

*sniff* Still smells like smug.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 days ago

*sniff* Still smells like smug.

.Trash-1000

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

LF line endings.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's only really Windows that doesn't use LF these days. All the Unix-based ones (Linux, BSD, macOS, iOS, Android etc.) use LF...

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