Re: [msysGit] ANN: Git for Windows 1.7.0.2 preview 20100309

From: Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 10, 2010, 22:24 UTC
Message-ID: <46d6db661003101424m63509eefke482e52af62a900b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B97AB1F.8060406@viscovery.net>

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:

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> Christian MICHON schrieb:
>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Johannes Schindelin
>> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Christian MICHON wrote:
>>>> This one feels weird here on Vista: .gitignore or .gitattributes end
>>>> up having no name visible at all on Explorer file view. I can only see
>>>> their real names once I fire the editor, on the title bar of the
>>>> editor. Is this expected ?
>
> Yes, when you have your Explorer in luser-mode. Go to the Options and
> *turn off* "Hide extensions of known files types". This unhides the "file
> extensions" .gitattributes, .gitignore, but also .txt, .doc, etc. that
> Windows knows about. :-P
>
> -- Hannes
>

damn. that was it and it's so simple: stupid me, I never bothered to change those settings on vista.

thanks a bunch. I believe there's no need for the screenshot after all...

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Christian
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