How to ignore .DS_store files on Mac systems?

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ckchen
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How to ignore .DS_store files on Mac systems?

Post by ckchen » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:54 pm

Hello,

I have tried to add an item "DS_Store" in the file suffix filters list but it seems not working.

Is this a bug?

C.K.

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Yes, that looks like a bug.

Post by jeffhostetler » Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:47 am

Yeah, that looks like a bug. If I set DS_Store as a suffix in
the file filter list, it will ignore xxx.DS_Store, but not the .DS_Store
dot file.

I'll log this.

Sorry,
jeff

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Re: How to ignore .DS_store files on Mac systems?

Post by mccord411 » Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:21 am

DId this ever get resolved? I'm using the latest version of your product (3.3.0 1001) and it doesn't seem to be fixed.

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Re: How to ignore .DS_store files on Mac systems?

Post by jeffhostetler » Tue Jan 05, 2010 10:49 am

Sorry, but no, not yet.

3.3.0 is the most recent release. Hopefully, 3.4.0 will have that fix.
(But I don't have an ETA for that yet.)

Again, sorry.

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Re: How to ignore .DS_store files on Mac systems?

Post by sjperry » Tue Dec 07, 2010 8:10 am

Hello, Any update on this?

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Re: How to ignore .DS_store files on Mac systems?

Post by jeffhostetler » Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:34 am

Sorry but no, not yet.
I'll add your vote for it.

jeff

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Re: How to ignore .DS_store files on Mac systems?

Post by bmr » Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:34 am

up on this topic
I'd like to vote for it!

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Re: How to ignore .DS_store files on Mac systems?

Post by Beth » Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:50 am

I've added your vote to the feature requests listed. Thank you for your feedback.
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Re: How to ignore .DS_store files on Mac systems?

Post by rin.aus » Wed Jul 04, 2012 1:23 pm

Not sure if this will help the cause of this request or not, since the initial request was posted in 2008, with no obvious progress on it, but I'll try anyway...

What if this request was generalized to add one more filter to the Folder Filters. So, in addition to the existing File Suffix Filter and Sub-folder Filter, there would be one more filter called Filename Filter, where the user would specify a list of file names to skip during the diffing operation. Examples of files that would be put in this list are: .DS_Store, core (multi-megabyte core dump files that certain programs leave behind as they crash), etc. Of course, a deluxe version of this would be to allow the file names to contain wildcard characters (e.g. *core to match octave-core, etc.). But at this point, the basic version would be perfectly fine for most uses...

BTW, I completely understand that the developers would want to see a certain level of interest before they are moved to implement proposed feature requests. I'm just trying to widen the interest in this subject by proposing a generalization to it.

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Re: How to ignore .DS_store files on Mac systems?

Post by Beth » Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:54 am

Thank you for your feedback. I've added it to the request for the developer to look into, and have added your vote to the requests.

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Re: How to ignore .DS_store files on Mac systems?

Post by asharcaa » Fri Sep 28, 2012 3:43 am

Finder on the Mac creates .DS_Store files everywhere. This will help out anyone developing ratpack on a mac as these files will no longer show up in git status. Ignore .DS_Store files that Finder on the Mac drops everywhere

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Re: How to ignore .DS_store files on Mac systems?

Post by Beth » Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:52 pm

Thank you for your feedback. I'll add your comments for the developer, and will add your vote to the requests.

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Re: How to ignore .DS_store files on Mac systems?

Post by ken.lyon » Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:04 pm

I would also find this a very helpful change. We use Surround as our source control provider and it creates a file by the name of .MySCMServerInfo in each directory within the repository structure. I was really hoping to be able to exclude those files in a folder diff, only to find this thread, which is sadly already quite old.

Please consider fixing this bug, so that the filter does not require there to be any letters before the period.

Thanks,

- Ken

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Re: How to ignore .DS_store files on Mac systems?

Post by Beth » Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:43 am

I've added your vote to the requests. Thank you for the feedback.


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Re: How to ignore .DS_store files on Mac systems?

Post by jeffhostetler » Tue Jun 11, 2013 1:42 pm

Since this has been one of our most frequent questions/requests
I thought I replay here and say that this has been addressed in 4.0.0
which we just released.

jeff

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