[gregmac]

As a non-Mac user, I always find it somewhat annoying when I download some .tgz published on Github or something and find .DS_Store littered inside.

I guess macos probably just uses GNU tar? It's kind of surprising it wasn't modified or configured by default to ignore .DS_Store.

[LeoPanthera]

> It's kind of surprising it wasn't modified or configured by default to ignore .DS_Store.

It was, but not by default.

If you export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true then tar will skip .DS_Store files.

[sneed_chucker]

Most of Mac's Unix utils come straight from FreeBSD without any special sauce from Apple.

[saagarjha]

Apple patches most of their utilities. This is frequently annoying when trying to track down what they did :)

[leptons]

They had the chance to get rid of DS_store, but they put it in MacOS anyway?

[pasc1878]

er. as the article says - it was created for OSX and not classic macOs

[willsmith72]

Ah that reminds me I committed a few last week and never cleaned it up..

[tekknik]

Global ignore.