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

From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>
Date: Dec 8, 2009, 14:23 UTC
Message-ID: <40aa078e0912080623q108b2affk80534ccd5fd7ace3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B1E57BF.1000500@pelagic.nl>

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Ferry Huberts <ferry.huberts@pelagic.nl> wrote:

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> 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.
>>
>
> 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)?

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Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund