On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'd like to propose to set the "Hidden" attribute for .git directories > > under Windows, just like CVS and Subversion do for the "CVS" and ".svn" > > directories. Doing so simplifies browsing / searching the Working Tree > > as most tools support to not display / search hidden files / folders. > > Probably. But then it would be harder to edit .git/config directly, no?
Not really. I have my GUI set up to show hidden files and directories dimmed, not completely hidden. Anyone who wants to edit .git/config directly could do the same. At least in Windows, showing hidden files/directories is a checkbox in the options GUI. To make my Mac's Finder show .files, I would have to set an undocumented flag from the command line. I'm not sure what the situation is in KDE/GNOME. At the command line, dir /a shows all files, much like ls -a includes files that begin with a . (dir /ah shows only hidden files. I suppose the equivalent would be ls -d .*) I'm not sure which tools Sebasitan uses to search, but my copy of grep (native Win32) descends into hidden directories (which is one of the reasons I switched from svn to git-svn the minute the first msysGit preview with git-svn support was available). I do note that my other search tool (Google Desktop) does not search hidden directories. > Well, I guess you can always use Bash/vi ;-) That too. Peter Harris
