Re: .gitk should created hidden in windows
2009/3/23 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>:
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> Steve Wagner writes:
>
>> 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]How about making all files beginning with . hidden? .gitignore for example
John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>