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Re: [BUG] Bad msysgit/egit interaction over dotfiles

From
YDYann Dirson <ydirson@linagora.com>
Date
Dec 8, 2009, 14:37 UTC
Message-ID
<20091208143700.GC5425@linagora.com>
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<40aa078e0912080623q108b2affk80534ccd5fd7ace3@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 03:23:55PM +0100, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Ferry Huberts <ferry.huberts@pelagic.nl> wrote:
> > On 12/08/2009 02:34 PM, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Yann Dirson <ydirson@linagora.com> wrote:
> >>> I'm not sure who's at fault here - namely, I can't see any valid
> >>> reason for eclipse to refuse such writes, but I am not sure it is a
> >>> good reason for msysgit would set the hidden bit either.  In either
> >>> case, even if only for the short term, I think msysgit should ensure
> >>> that this bit does not get set (possibly circumventing any magic msys
> >>> would do behind its back).
> >>
> >> Setting the config option "core.hidedotfiles" to "false" should
> >> prevent this from happening.
Right, it works much better this way.
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> > why isn't this the default?
> >
> > I also experienced this change in behaviour and I thought we would
> > strive to keep the experience the same.
> >
> 
> You can follow the discussion here:
> http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=288
> 
> I believe the reason is something like "because someone suggested it,
> and no one disagreed". Do you have a good argument why it shouldn't be
> the default (other than "it's a change", because changing it back now
> would also be a change)?

Depending on the opinion of the Eclipse guys on this issue about "writing to hidden files only says 'could not write'", which arguably could be seen as a bug on their side, we can see changing this behaviour back to the default on the msysgit side as either a (possibly temporary) workaround for a known eclipse bug, or as getting again interoperable with egit.

Note that I did not get time yet to fully investigate the eclipse status on the issue.

Best regards,
-- 
Yann
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Message 5 of 9 in “[BUG] Bad msysgit/egit interaction over dotfiles”
  1. Yann DirsonDec 8, 2009
  2. Erik Faye-LundDec 8, 2009
  3. Ferry HubertsDec 8, 2009
  4. Erik Faye-LundDec 8, 2009
  5. Yann DirsonDec 8, 2009
  6. Marius Storm-OlsenDec 9, 2009
  7. Yann DirsonDec 10, 2009
  8. Erik Faye-LundDec 14, 2009
  9. Johannes SchindelinDec 14, 2009

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