Subject: Re: .gitk should created hidden in windows

From: Steve Wagner <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:06:00 +0100

> I didn't even notice that file, and I use gitk all the time.  That
> directory it put it in, the "top level" user directory based on profile,
> is not something that is directly examined by most users.

This is true for XP and before, but in Vista, 2008 and Windows 7 the
user have directly access to the user profile directory (simply click on
the username in startmenue) and can see the .gitk file.

Steve

John Dlugosz schrieb:
> === Re: ===
> The problem is that windows dose not hides files beginning with a dot as
> it is in unix. So the .gitk file is created as visible in the windows
> user profile. Problematic too is that i can no set the hidden attribute
> to this file, because it is recreated every time i start gitk, so the
> hidden attribute gets lost.
> === end ===
> 
> I didn't even notice that file, and I use gitk all the time.  That
> directory it put it in, the "top level" user directory based on profile,
> is not something that is directly examined by most users.  It is
> probably used as roughly equivalent to the home directory under Unix,
> but is not exactly---Windows has separate defined locations for
> programs's settings, user documents, and desktop among others.  I think
> this file properly belongs in %APPDATA%, which is a hidden directory.
> The stuff in that directory is not itself hidden.
> 
> That is, use the APPDATA environment variable to locate the file, rather
> than the HOME environment variable.
> 
> --John
> 
> 
> 
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