Re: ANN: Git for Windows 1.7.0.2 preview 20100309

From: Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Date: Mar 10, 2010, 12:22 UTC
Message-ID: <eaa105841003100422h3aa273del1e7b77786d83a7e1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46d6db661003092258t22f2ee5ga720f18a859db957@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:58 AM, 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 ?

By default, XP and newer hide extensions. For security[1] and usability reasons, the first thing any sane person does after installing Windows is change explorer to show extensions.

So it's expected, but only if you're insane. :-)

Peter Harris

[1] Malware authors like to ship "trojan.exe" with an embedded icon that looks like the one your text editor sets on text files. Or even "trojan.txt.exe"