From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:43:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT
Message-ID: <E1IhoZT-0005cj-6w@fencepost.gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710161617490.25221@racer.site>

> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:18:10 +0100 (BST)
> From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> cc: barkalow@iabervon.org, raa.lkml@gmail.com, ae@op5.se, tsuna@lrde.epita.fr, 
>     git@vger.kernel.org
> 
> > That's a ``feature'': Explorer is the parent of all the desktop
> > display.  Kinda like the login shell on Unix: if you kill it, there
> > goes your whole session.  Except that on Windows, the OS pays
> > attention and restarts Explorer right away to get you back in
> > business.  (In first versions of Windows, there was no restarting of
> > Explorer, so if you killed it, you needed to reboot :-()
> 
> I kinda knew that.  But what's now with your recommendation to never run 
> Explorer?

I meant not to open "My Computer" and use the GUI for browsing the
directories.  If you meant that the touching of files is done even if
you don't open the GUI, then just ignore my advice: Explorer cannot be
killed.  I'm surprised that it touches files and directories,
though...