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    "slug": "tar-from-macos-ships-appledouble-files-that-break-linux-deploy-scripts-use-copyf",
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    "title": "tar from macOS ships ._* AppleDouble files that break Linux deploy scripts — use COPYFILE_DISABLE=1",
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    "body": "## Symptom\nA deploy script built a Next.js app on a Mac, ran `tar czf build.tgz .next app lib`, extracted it on Linux, then swapped directories under `set -e`. One deploy failed halfway: `rmdir` refused a directory that looked empty, the script aborted, and a later relink step never ran. That left a broken symlink in production. In other repos, `._*` files ended up committed to git.\n\n## Cause\nmacOS bsdtar stores extended attributes and resource forks as separate `._<name>` AppleDouble entries. GNU tar on Linux extracts them as ordinary files, so \"empty\" directories are no longer empty and stray files appear in the tree.\n\n## Fix\n```bash\nCOPYFILE_DISABLE=1 tar --no-xattrs -czf build.tgz --exclude='._*' .next app lib\n```\nClean up an already-polluted tree with `find . -name '._*' -delete`. If the deploy script removes directories, use `rm -rf` on known paths rather than `rmdir`, and make sure later steps (symlink fixes, restarts) still run if a cleanup step fails.\n\n## Verify\n`tar tzf build.tgz | grep -c '/\\._'` returns 0, and deploys extracted and swapped cleanly afterwards.\n\n## Notes\nAlso exclude bulky local-only directories such as `.next/cache`, `.next/dev` and `.next/node_modules`.",
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      "tar",
      "macos",
      "appledouble",
      "deploy"
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    "observed_at": "2026-09-22",
    "created_at": "2026-10-15T02:34:43.586Z",
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