How can I Remove .DS_Store files from a Git reposi

Question

How can I remove those annoying Mac OS X .DS_Store files from a Git repository?

Answer 1

Combining benzado and webmat's answers, updating with git rm, not failing on files found that aren't in repo, and making it paste-able generically for any user:

# remove any existing files from the repo, skipping over ones not in repo
find . -name .DS_Store -print0 | xargs -0 git rm --ignore-unmatch
# specify a global exclusion list
git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore
# adding .DS_Store to that list
echo .DS_Store >> ~/.gitignore

Answer 2

There are a few solutions to resolve this problem. To avoid creating .DS_Store files, do not to use the OS X Finder to view folders. An alternative way to view folders is to use UNIX command line. To remove the .DS_Store files a third-party product called DS_Store Terminator can be used. To delete the .DS_Store files from the entire system a UNIX shell command can be used. Launch Terminal from Applications:Utilities At the UNIX shell prompt enter the following UNIX command: sudo find / -name ".DS_Store" -depth -exec rm {} \; When prompted for a password enter the Mac OS X Administrator password.

This command is to find and remove all occurrences of .DS_Store starting from the root (/) of the file system through the entire machine. To configure this command to run as a scheduled task follow the steps below: Launch Terminal from Applications:Utilities At the UNIX shell prompt enter the following UNIX command:

sudo crontab -e When prompted for a password enter the Mac OS X Administrator password. Once in the vi editor press the letter I on your keyboard once and enter the following:

15 1 * * * root find / -name ".DS_Store" -depth -exec rm {} \;

This is called crontab entry, which has the following format:

Minute Hour DayOfMonth Month DayOfWeek User Command.

The crontab entry means that the command will be executed by the system automatically at 1:15 AM everyday by the account called root.

The command starts from find all the way to . If the system is not running this command will not get executed.

To save the entry press the Esc key once, then simultaneously press Shift + z+ z.

Note: Information in Step 4 is for the vi editor only.

Answer 3

add this to your file .gitignore

#Ignore folder mac
.DS_Store

save this and make commit

git add -A
git commit -m "ignore .DS_Store"

and now you ignore this for all your commits

Answer 4

This worked for me, combo of two answers from above:

• $ git rm --cached -f *.DS_Store
• $ git commit -m "filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch .DS_Store"
• $ git push origin master --force

Answer 5

The best solution to tackle this issue is to Globally ignore these files from all the git repos on your system. This can be done by creating a global gitignore file like:

vi ~/.gitignore_global

Adding Rules for ignoring files like:

# Compiled source #
###################
*.com
*.class
*.dll
*.exe
*.o
*.so

# Packages #
############
# it's better to unpack these files and commit the raw source
# git has its own built in compression methods
*.7z
*.dmg
*.gz
*.iso
*.jar
*.rar
*.tar
*.zip

# Logs and databases #
######################
*.log
*.sql
*.sqlite

# OS generated files #
######################
.DS_Store
.DS_Store?
._*
.Spotlight-V100
.Trashes
ehthumbs.db
Thumbs.db

Now, add this file to your global git config:

git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global

Edit:

Removed Icons as they might need to be committed as application assets.

Answer 6

I had to change git-rm to git rm in the above to get it to work:

find . -depth -name '.DS_Store' -exec git rm --cached '{}' \; -print