Re: .gitk should created hidden in windows
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> The problem is that windows dose not hides files beginning with a dot as
> it is in unix. So the .gitk file is created as visible in the windows
> user profile. Problematic too is that i can no set the hidden attribute
> to this file, because it is recreated every time i start gitk, so the
> hidden attribute gets lost.
>
> Can you control this and create the file with the hidden attribute on
> windows?
Please try this patch and let me know if it does what you want.
Paul.
diff --git a/gitk b/gitk
index d7de27e..54f3f2b 100755
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk
@@ -2487,6 +2487,9 @@ proc savestuff {w} {
if {![winfo viewable .]} return
catch {
set f [open "~/.gitk-new" w]
+ if {$::tcl_platform(platform) eq {windows}} {
+ file attributes "~/.gitk-new" -hidden true
+ }
puts $f [list set mainfont $mainfont]
puts $f [list set textfont $textfont]
puts $f [list set uifont $uifont]
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>