Re: [msysGit] ANN: Git for Windows 1.7.0.2 preview 20100309

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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"
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