Question

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

Answer 1

Remove existing .DS_Store files from the repository:

find . -name .DS_Store -print0 | xargs -0 git rm -f --ignore-unmatch 

Add this line:

.DS_Store 

to the file .gitignore, which can be found at the top level of your repository (or create the file if it isn’t there already). You can do this easily with this command in the top directory:

echo .DS_Store >> .gitignore 

Then commit the file to the repo:

git add .gitignore git commit -m '.DS_Store banished!'