Yann Dirson said the following on 08.12.2009 15:37:
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 03:23:55PM +0100, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
You can follow the discussion here:
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=288
I believe the reason is something like "because someone suggested
it, and no one disagreed". Do you have a good argument why it
shouldn't be the default (other than "it's a change", because
changing it back now would also be a change)?
Depending on the opinion of the Eclipse guys on this issue about
"writing to hidden files only says 'could not write'", which
arguably could be seen as a bug on their side, we can see changing
this behaviour back to the default on the msysgit side as either a
(possibly temporary) workaround for a known eclipse bug, or as
getting again interoperable with egit.
Dot-files on unix are considered hidden. It's the only way files are
hidden there. Not so on Windows. Dot-files are just like any normal
file, and you need to mark a file hidden.
So, the logic of egit, that *actually* hidden files should not be
written to, but dot-files should, seems to me to be a bug in egit.
There should be no reason why egit shouldn't be able to write to any
file, pending permissions. I'd say file a bug report with egit.
--
.marius
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