From: Marius Storm-Olsen Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:56:21 GMT Subject: Re: [BUG] Bad msysgit/egit interaction over dotfiles Message-ID: <4B200EF5.2060606@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091208143700.GC5425@linagora.com> Yann Dirson said the following on 08.12.2009 15:37: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 03:23:55PM +0100, Erik Faye-Lund wrote: >> 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. Dot-files on unix are considered hidden. It's the only way files are hidden there. Not so on Windows. Dot-files are just like any normal file, and you need to mark a file hidden. So, the logic of egit, that *actually* hidden files should not be written to, but dot-files should, seems to me to be a bug in egit. There should be no reason why egit shouldn't be able to write to any file, pending permissions. I'd say file a bug report with egit. -- .marius