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

> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Yann Dirson <ydirson@linagora.com> wrote:
>
> > [discussion revolving around ".*" being marked hidden on Windows]
> >
> > But maybe the situation is not so clear.  That "hide dotfiles" was 
> > implemented so that ".git" at first, and then ".git*" files do not 
> > clutter the view of the project.  But then, if a git repo has other 
> > dotfiles, those are really *part of* the versionned stuff, so I do not 
> > see why those should be hidden at all.  After all, the .project, 
> > .classpath, and other eclipse project files have that name on windows 
> > too, and it will indeed *confuse* people to get them hidden.
> >
> > So should we have 2 classes of dotfiles, those "private to git", and
> > the others, one class being hidden while the others are not ?  I am
> > not sure at all this would be a good idea either.  Or maybe we should
> > only get .git hidden - after all, that one is the only real metadata
> > not part of the versionned stuff itself ?
> >
> > Maybe we should add some sort of "core.hidedotfiles = dotgitonly"
> > setting, and make that the default ?  That one does not appear to
> > cause any problems to jgit, and eclipse itself has not business with
> > it, so it would IMHO make sense.
> >
> > Opinions ?
> >
> 
> IF we were to go down this path, perhaps it would be even better to
> use some sort of file-pattern or even squeeze this into gitattributes?
> I guess something like ".* +hidden" should emulate the unix behaviour
> (given that we add a hidden attribute). I don't think we have a global
> gitattributes file though, so it'd have to be added to each repo where
> the effect is desired, I guess.