On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What does the Icon^M try to catch, exactly? Is it a file? Is it a directory? > Is it "anything that begins with Icon^M"? It seems to be a special hidden file on Macs for UI convenience. > On Apr 25, 2005, at 6:21 AM, Peter N. Lundblad wrote: > > The Icon^M file in a directory gives that directory a custom icon in > the Finder. They are a holdover from MacOS 9 but there are still a lot > of them out there. The "new" OS X format for icons are .icns files but > I'm not sure if you can do custom file directory icons with them (you > probably can, I just haven't found the docs yet). > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html