Re: New .svn folder sometimes not hidden

2009/2/26 Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>:
> Simon Large wrote:
>> 2009/2/26 bzlm <tomten_at_gmail.com>:
>>> Sometimes for new folders within a version controlled directory tree,
>>> the .svn subfolder does not get hidden. I then have to hide it
>>> manually. Anyone else get this? I've been seeing this in the last 3
>>> latest stable TSVN versions (i.e. a few weeks).
>>
>> Subversion never has hidden .svn folders AFAIK. There is a Windows
>> global setting to hide system files, and paths beginning with '.' are
>> considered as system files. Explorer->Tools->Folder options.
>
> That's not correct. Subversion didn't hide the .svn folders in the
> beginning, but I sent several mails to their dev list about that
> insisting that those folders have to be hidden on Windows too.
> It was then implemented in the svn library (I think in 1.1, but I'm not
> sure - you'd have to check the changelog to determine the exact version
> when this happened).
>
> Windows does not consider dotted names as system files - Linux hides
> those but not Windows. Subversion in fact now sets the hidden flag
> explicitely on Windows.

Oops, my bad. In that case the explorer setting I am thinking of is
"Show hidden files".

Simon

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