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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: .gitk should created hidden in windows
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:37:51 +1100
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Steve Wagner writes:

> 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.
> 
> Can you control this and create the file with the hidden attribute on
> windows?

Please try this patch and let me know if it does what you want.

Paul.

diff --git a/gitk b/gitk
index d7de27e..54f3f2b 100755
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk
@@ -2487,6 +2487,9 @@ proc savestuff {w} {
     if {![winfo viewable .]} return
     catch {
 	set f [open "~/.gitk-new" w]
+	if {$::tcl_platform(platform) eq {windows}} {
+	    file attributes "~/.gitk-new" -hidden true
+	}
 	puts $f [list set mainfont $mainfont]
 	puts $f [list set textfont $textfont]
 	puts $f [list set uifont $uifont]