[Laszlo-dev] review tars resource forks [Was: For Review: Change 20061106-ben-p Summary: Extensions to performance logger to record more info about the runtime]

[Benjamin Shine]

On Nov 7, 2006, at 2:53 PM, P T Withington wrote:

> On 2006-11-07, at 15:10 EST, P T Withington wrote:
>
>> On 2006-11-07, at 14:48 EST, Benjamin Shine wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 7, 2006, at 7:50 AM, P T Withington wrote:
>>>
>>>> Comments:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Your editor apparently sticks lots of attributes into text  
>>>> files, and your tar bundles them up as ._<filename>.  Just an  
>>>> annoyance, I guess, but it would be nice to teach your tar to  
>>>> not bother with these attributes for the purposes of review.   
>>>> (What tar are you using?)
>>>
>>> I'm using GNU tar in /usr/bin/tar... educating it would require  
>>> changing svn-bash.sh. I'll try a change locally, and see if it  
>>> fixes this without breaking other things. (I'm concerned about  
>>> the chance of mucking things up when adding exclusions that start  
>>> with the potentially regexp-meaningful "._")
>>
>> I'm using the same, so something else is going on.  I'm not sure  
>> that filtering for ._ will have any effect; I am suspicious that  
>> this is a fictitious file name that represents the second fork of  
>> a Mac file.  It probably gets written for any file that has more  
>> than one fork.  We may not have seen it before because the editors  
>> we use don't write any meta information into text files....

Tricky! These do seem to have appeared when I started using IntelliJ.

>
> Hah!  Just happened to me.  I decided to switch over to using  
> Aquamacs, which has a nifty feature to write 'creator codes' on  
> each file you edit with it (so you can double-click on the file and  
> have it open in Aquamacs).  This creates the ._ files that tar then  
> graciously picks up for you.  Bleah.
>
> I turned that off in my editor.  You can turn off something like  
> 'Save Document State' in BBEdit to effect the same.  Don't know  
> about other editors.  Don't know if there is an option on tar to  
> ignore resource forks on certain file types...

Hm, I use open-with-my-editor everywhere, but on a per-file-extension  
basis, not per-file. In the finder, select an lzx file, then cmd-i to  
show info on a file. Open up the tab which says "Open with:". Select  
the editor of your choice from the menu, then do Change All... and it  
will change the default editor for that file extension to the editor  
you've specified.

How can I see these ._ files other than making a tar and looking to  
see if it contains ._ files? ls -al doesn't show me any, which I'd  
think means that there aren't any... but I didn't delete them on  
purpose, so when did they go away?


Benjamin Shine
Software Engineer, Open Laszlo / Laszlo Systems
ben at laszlosystems.com