Saturday, April 6, 2024

Globally ignore .DS_Store from all the git repos in macOS

# 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

macos - How can I Remove .DS_Store files from a Git repository? - Stack Overflow

List Git remote branches

git branch -r