From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Wagner Subject: Re: .gitk should created hidden in windows Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:35:21 +0100 Message-ID: <49BFD149.1080707@lanwin.de> References: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70A2AF295@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> <49BFCA68.2080800@lanwin.de> <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70A3FC063@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: John Dlugosz X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 17 17:37:38 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LjcID-0003yo-Pr for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:37:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755420AbZCQQf7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:35:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754795AbZCQQf7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:35:59 -0400 Received: from lanwin.de ([77.37.16.229]:35584 "EHLO vs5923.vserver4free.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754530AbZCQQf6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:35:58 -0400 Received: from [10.10.11.46] (unknown [213.61.128.220]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by vs5923.vserver4free.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6689A21687; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:35:56 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 In-Reply-To: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70A3FC063@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: John Dlugosz schrieb: > Yes, I was thinking that I was confronted by these things more in Vista > on a desktop, but can't remember exactly. A lot of the directories are > symbolic links that can't be clicked! I'm running Windows 2003 which I > think is based on the Vista core, but doesn't have the flashy UI candy, > for servers. As far as is know, 2003 is based on xp and the this large amount of symbolic links are only there to dont break bad develop applications which are not using variables like APPDATA. > But, you would not see more clutter if it was in the place where your > APPDATA environment variable points, right? Yes this is the better approach on windows, but since it is only one file, it would be ok to leave it there and make it hidden. Steve