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"
next prev parent 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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