https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/releases/tag/snapshot has hidden files.

[hyoklee]

Describe the bug

Snapshot includes hidden files:

  -rw-r--r--@   1 hyoklee  HDF\\hdf    6148 May 26 16:35 .DS_Store
  -rw-rw-r--@   1 hyoklee  HDF\\hdf     571 May 25 16:07 .autom4te.cfg
  -rw-rw-r--@   1 hyoklee  HDF\\hdf    2634 May 25 16:07 .clang-format
  -rw-rw-r--@   1 hyoklee  HDF\\hdf   39675 May 25 16:07 .gitattributes
  drwxrwxr-x@   7 hyoklee  HDF\\hdf     224 May 25 16:07 .github
  -rw-rw-r--@   1 hyoklee  HDF\\hdf     833 May 25 16:07 .gitignore
  -rw-rw-r--@   1 hyoklee  HDF\\hdf    1530 May 25 16:07 .h5chkright.ini

Expected behavior

Remove them.

Platform (please complete the following information)

• HDF5 version: develop

Additional context

It's nice to see snapshot on GitHub!

[hyoklee]

@byrnHDF wrote release.yml.

[lrknox]

The latest release produced by bin/release also contains 5 of these files beginning with '.'. The files not in the latest release are .DS_Store and .gitignore. The tar command in bin/release includes the option --exclude-vcs (exclude version control system directories) which probably accounts for no .gitignore in the release tar files. There are other --exclude options that could possibly be used to exclude all . files.

[byrnHDF]

Those files all exist in the repo, if they should not be wanted in the source tarball they should not be in the repo. They should be added to .gitignore file.