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From: Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
To: Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	msysgit@googlegroups.com,  git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ANN: Git for Windows 1.7.0.2 preview 20100309
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:22:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eaa105841003100422h3aa273del1e7b77786d83a7e1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46d6db661003092258t22f2ee5ga720f18a859db957@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Christian MICHON wrote:
> This one feels weird here on Vista: .gitignore or .gitattributes end
> up having no name visible at all on Explorer file view. I can only see
> their real names once I fire the editor, on the title bar of the
> editor. Is this expected ?

By default, XP and newer hide extensions. For security[1] and
usability reasons, the first thing any sane person does after
installing Windows is change explorer to show extensions.

So it's expected, but only if you're insane. :-)

Peter Harris

[1] Malware authors like to ship "trojan.exe" with an embedded icon
that looks like the one your text editor sets on text files. Or even
"trojan.txt.exe"

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-10 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-09 18:24 ANN: Git for Windows 1.7.0.2 preview 20100309 Johannes Schindelin
2010-03-10  0:38 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-03-10  0:48 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-03-10  1:30   ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-03-10 15:19     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-03-10 20:09     ` [msysGit] " Johannes Sixt
2010-03-10 12:21   ` Pat Thoyts
2010-03-10  2:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-10  6:58 ` [msysGit] " Christian MICHON
2010-03-10 12:22   ` Peter Harris [this message]
2010-03-10 12:30   ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-03-10 13:19     ` Christian MICHON
2010-03-10 14:22       ` Johannes Sixt
2010-03-10 22:24         ` [msysGit] " Christian MICHON
2010-03-10  7:48 ` Stefan Naewe
2010-03-10 13:14 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-03-10 16:44   ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-03-10 21:06     ` Pascal Obry
2010-03-10 22:27       ` Christian MICHON
2010-03-22  9:13 ` Peter Krefting
2010-03-22 10:58   ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-03-22 11:15     ` Peter Krefting
2010-03-23  1:54     ` [msysGit] " Ping Yin
2010-03-23 12:03       ` Pat Thoyts
2010-03-23 15:06         ` Ping Yin

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