I'm using GNU stow to manage my dotfiles, on a Mac.
I tried creating a .stow-local-ignore
file in the root stow directory, with the contents:
\.DS_Store
But I still get errors:
WARNING! stowing bin would cause conflicts:
* existing target is neither a link nor a directory: .DS_Store
All operations aborted.
How do I configure stow
to always ignore all .DS_Store
files?
To ignore all .DS_Store
files,
you need to add
\.DS_Store
to ~/.stow-global-ignore
(under your home directory).
.stow-local-ignore
only applies
to specific packages (subfolders) in your root stow
directory.
From the docs:
If you put Perl regular expressions, one per line, in a .stow-local-ignore file within any top level package directory, in which case any file or directory within that package matching any of these regular expressions will be ignored.
For example,
say you have two packages,
foo
and bar
, in your root stow
directory.
You run stow foo
and stow bar
.
root-dir
|-- .stow-local-ignore # STOW ignores this file since it's not associated with any package.
|-- foo
| └-- .stow-local-ignore # STOW uses this file since it's in a package.
└-- bar
Note that .stow-local-ignore
overwrites .stow-global-ignore
,
so if you use a local ignore file,
make sure to add
\.DS_Store
to it as well.
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