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When tarring up a subversion release on Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard), it’s difficult to filter out the dot underscore (._*) files that riddle the filesystem. The exclude flag for tar won’t do it. By adding this command to my ~/.bash_profile these files are excluded when tarring from the terminal:

export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true

So now an archive won’t be filled with useless ._* files:

tar czvf ~/Desktop/rc_1.1.tgz --exclude='.svn' .