Thanx, sorted as suggested i change settings in control panel. Thanx On Friday, 5 December 2014 11:29:33 UTC, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 08:18:20 -0000 > "Philip Oakley" <philip...@iee.org <javascript:>> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Aafaq Mateen > > To: git-...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 3:22 PM > > Subject: [git-users] no .git folder when creating new repository > > > > > > Hi > > I down loaded the Git Windows version 1.9.4 and gave my name and > > email at bash and come back to Git GUI to create new repository.I > > cant see any .git folder in the newly created folder on my desktop. > > > > just wondering why its happening ..I tried couple of time > > uninstalling and stalling git back but its the same . > > please help in this regard. > > Have you set your system to show 'hidden files and folders'? > > > > Any file or folder (in windows) that begins with a dot is by default > > a hidden file/folder. > > This is not correct: Windows does not have a convention of hiding > anything based on the names -- what it has, but only in one particular > piece of software -- Windows Explorer -- which is "the shell" > responsible, among other things, for browsing files, is hiding by > default the predefined set of "system" paths as well as hiding > extensions of files of "registered types" (my pet target for bashing > default settings on this class of OSes). The reason the OP can't see > the ".git" subdirectory is Git explicitly setting the attribute "hidden" > on that directory after creating it; to demonstrate: > > C:\tmp>git init foo > Initialized empty Git repository in C:/tmp/foo/.git/ > > C:\tmp>attrib foo\.git > H C:\tmp\foo\.git > > "H" here stands for "hidden". Run attr /? in the command prompt to see > what other attributes are supported on Windows filesystems (FATs, NTFS). > > > *nix has a similar protocol. > > Only in a sense: interactive command-line shells (like bash) and dumbed > down graphical shells like Nautilus indeed do not show "dotfiles" by > default, and command-line shells also by default exclude such files > from globbing operations, IIRC. These files are not really hidden as > POSIX does not mandate implementing such a file attribute on > filesystems. So yes, they are hidden by policy only. > > > In Windows Explorer you can set a preference to show them by default > > (see Google;-) > > That is correct, yes. > My personal approach instead is to use a sensible file-browsing tool > for heavy-lifting operations leaving Windows Explorer for quick ad-hoc > tasks, and then it can be left mostly with default settings. > To name a few such tools, there are: FAR manager [1] (I admit it's > hardly popular anywhere except in the ex-USSR lands), Total Commander > [2] (proprietary), Free Commander [3] (Total Commander clone, > freeware), μCommander [4] (Java, for those with lots of free RAM, so > they've picked a classy name) etc. > > [...] > > 1. http://www.farmanager.com/ > 2. http://www.ghisler.com/ > 3. http://www.freecommander.com > 4. http://www.mucommander.com/ >
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