From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mingw: introduce the 'core.hideDotFiles' setting Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 10:40:38 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <17d30bb680a0452efd7b3c4f42e2f94478a86273.1462372716.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> <32f14c212946c7c1da8007c8eff536fe82872f5b.1462603453.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Ramsay Jones , Erik Faye-Lund , Pat Thoyts To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 11 10:42:19 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b0Pik-0006db-Pp for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 11 May 2016 10:42:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751706AbcEKImN (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2016 04:42:13 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:58954 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751422AbcEKImL (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2016 04:42:11 -0400 Received: from virtualbox ([37.24.143.84]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx103) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LtZfc-1bjH6q33vY-010xa7; Wed, 11 May 2016 10:41:52 +0200 X-X-Sender: virtualbox@virtualbox In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:E6XeAmxjyp4ruuVTR2aCZEnUpQhau5beT6yjz170bbLInyHPM9N 9aTTYnWICKlcqWr8pgSwFB8bei0dnHOU9k5xq4fWFbjlTg+A532KyrmM0c190ndFzmldewU DaxhKmWlRBsZRvfGHl3Pbmgs1VinwjQqxtn4eDJEvQWh3vKQyk4YGKTSauZi9rjz7G6Hrbz 2BsvVJdTTD3I0cc8J5r5g== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:4zZKjKD0MLI=:pRD+jLDKu8qH7O6D71ZmFM 3naceKjMAzipIyfi4E1iwE5vigm0i/3OR4XI7iLv1RYNSMuDR1G/uhTGexTsewL8dHHZzeo3G Y/h7zSyUsowy91LnJEjqDN69QbGTXTo9j9eN4EvASpuZkdlRQMkqB+VExe6uGy/8DjC3twlB2 NvE/e+5rn9SaQcl/vtaTpf9+v1ttOE47WH8aJ+Icl9F8cd8RVUCfG4RijVWFFWBAM/B8IKvxl 281DukJky5ud+x3nbyUYQt881kO9T2LCSBQYMTfJ8apboK6g84r9wHxOce7MqoKSS5T3uqWI/ 83fxYRVJCkS6KAt6mwL2KFloxPkilTgWupgTcVjTVll2gYD+cEuzsq8EVc5BZPzbABj9e7wAh dlMYmND0zMrL65kg2y2V8lZHUTT4v43QaLq42/9IbEwmRepFcuj+69pGsB6OEcR02YoRbE+1Y UO2se6J1NUqqO7TGY7Q5r0wrLAmrYR2lEV5pXGZzfmXZuapQTBv26YR70ERN9HAvirLUhmurq 8PajGj05KEz/wCx1K1XeQ2MMFZbst4ieCm4pZOBZDwY1sIZDHHSOc8kS8grW6lsV15+UDW4Qm C6lTlXGZazfJo6LEiUbB7Ue2M8mV7ai9wXJpWJo7rUoUoAH2j0Boj5vEVTp9suxC67l5Ieo7E Rxv7HcM5SlWdaRepbiXtmCRBxKleyCep20B2Ly9aVwMi+/58hy02z7WC0k7G0ChNUL9RONDpg cslrR/lfYYBTX2XRzHecwkUFbIcRASsculaxyVLNFvpBYqV1+bV5H/cp3O+f5xvaXQYXC8Nq Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Junio, On Tue, 10 May 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin writes: > > > On Mon, 9 May 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > >> Johannes Schindelin writes: > >> > >> > +core.hideDotFiles:: > >> > + (Windows-only) If true, mark newly-created directories and > >> > files whose + name starts with a dot as hidden. If > >> > 'dotGitOnly', only the `.git/` + directory is hidden, but no other > >> > files starting with a dot. The + default mode is to mark > >> > only the `.git/` directory as hidden. > >> > >> I think "The default mode is 'dotGitOnly'" is sufficient, given that > >> it is described just one sentence before, which is still likely to > >> be in readers' mind. But I'll let it pass without tweaking. > > > > Yeah, when rewriting this after Ramsay pointed out the erroneous > > documentation, I wanted to fail on the crystal-clear side. > > Saying the same thing twice in rapid succession does not make it > any clearer, though. If you are rerolling anyway, then I think it > would be better to shorten it to clarify. Okay, will send out the next iteration in a moment (this is good exercise for my cross-validating interactive rebase, and it is really not all that much hassle for me to send out subsequent iterations). Ciao, Dscho