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Don't commit your .DS_Store files

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Post by axvf » Wed, May 23, 2018, 2:16 PM UTC

Re: Don't commit your .DS_Store files

Post by toomanybeersies » Wed, May 23, 2018, 2:34 PM UTC

This seems more like a story of "don't store database backups in publicly accessible folders"

Post by axvf » Wed, May 23, 2018, 2:43 PM UTC

toomanybeersies wrote: post #2

This seems more like a story of "don't store database backups in publicly accessible folders"

That's certainly the real problem here, the point is you might expect the webserver to prevent indexing but this file can act as an index.