gitignore all the DS Store files in every folder and subfolder

Question

I ve added  DS Store to the  gitignore file  but it seems that it is only ignoring  DS Store in the root directory  not in every folder and subfolder   How do I fix this

User · Answer

You should add following lines while creating a project. It will always ignore .DS_Store to be pushed to the repository.

*.DS_Store this will ignore .DS_Store while code commit.
git rm --cached .DS_Store this is to remove .DS_Store files from your repository, in case you need it, you can uncomment it.

## ignore .DS_Store file.
# git rm --cached .DS_Store
*.DS_Store

User · Answer

Add   DS Store to your  gitignore file  That works for me perfectly

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If  DS Store was never added to your git repository  simply add it to your  gitignore file    If you don t have one  create a file called   gitignore   In the root directory of your app and simply write      DS Store   In it  This will never allow the  DS Store file to sneak in your git   But  if it s already there  write in your terminal   find   -name  DS Store -print0   xargs -0 git rm -f --ignore-unmatch   then commit and push the changes to remove the  DS Store from your remote repo   git commit -m  Remove  DS Store from everywhere   git push origin master   And now add  DS Store to your  gitignore file  and then again commit and push with the 2 last pieces of code  git commit     git push

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Simply place this on a new line in  gitignore     DS Store  From git documentation   A leading  quot    quot  followed by a slash means match in all directories  For example   quot    foo quot  matches file or directory  quot foo quot  anywhere  the same as pattern  quot foo quot    quot    foo bar quot  matches file or directory  quot bar quot  anywhere that is directly under directory  quot foo quot

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You can also add the --cached flag to auco s answer to maintain local  DS store files  as Edward Newell mentioned in his original answer  The modified command looks like this  find   -name  DS Store -print0   xargs -0 git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch   cheers and thanks

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git rm     DS Store - remove all  DS Store from git   echo   DS Store  gt  gt   gitignore - ignore  DS Store in future   commit  amp  push

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I think the problem you re having is that in some earlier commit  you ve accidentally added  DS Store files to the repository   Of course  once a file is tracked in your repository  it will continue to be tracked even if it matches an entry in an applicable  gitignore file   You have to manually remove the  DS Store files that were added to your repository   You can use   git rm --cached  DS Store   Once removed  git should ignore it   You should only need the following line in your root  gitignore file   DS Store   Don t forget the period   git rm --cached  DS Store   removes only  DS Store from the current directory  You can use   find   -name  DS Store -print0   xargs -0 git rm --ignore-unmatch   to remove all  DS Stores from the repository   Felt tip  Since you probably never want to include  DS Store files  make a global rule   First  make a global  gitignore file somewhere  e g    echo  DS Store  gt  gt     gitignore global   Now tell git to use it for all repositories    git config --global core excludesfile    gitignore global   This page helped me answer your question

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Step  1 Remove the existing files using this command  find   -name  DS Store -print0   xargs -0 git rm -f --ignore-unmatch  Step   2 Add  DS Store in your  gitignore file  Step  3  Commit your changes in  gitignore     git add  gitignore     git commit -m  removed  DS Store

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Add    DS Store into  gitignore for the sub directory    If  DS Store already committed   find   -name  DS Store -print0   xargs -0 git rm --ignore-unmatch     To ignore them in all repository   sometimes it named    DS Store   echo   DS Store   gt  gt     gitignore global echo     DS Store   gt  gt     gitignore global echo      DS Store   gt  gt     gitignore global echo        DS Store   gt  gt     gitignore global git config --global core excludesfile    gitignore global

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Step 1  delete all the   DS store files  One can run  git rm -f   DS Store   but be aware that rm -f can be a bit dangerous if you have a typo   Step two  add     DS Store  DS Store   to  gitignore  This worked for me

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Your  gitignore file should look like this     Ignore Mac DS Store files  DS Store   As long as you don t include a slash  it is matched against the file name in all directories   from here

[gitignore] .gitignore all the .DS_Store files in every folder and subfolder

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