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Dev tools · October 8, 2019

tmignore

Exclude development files from Time Machine backups

tmignore launched on October 8, 2019 with 4 votes, #1,552 of 3,363 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

What it does

Time Machine on macOS is a great backup tool. Unfortunately for developers, it also backs up project's dependencies, build output and other undesired files. tmignore excludes files and directories matched bygitignore files from future Time Machine backups.

🕔 Exclude development files from Time Machine backups - samuelmeuli/tmignore

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