That's why some files like gitignore and clang-format start with a dot? Some old way of hiding the file?
How bizarre. I had no idea it was actually related to the . and .. files.
How bizarre. I had no idea it was actually related to the . and .. files.
An old way, but also it's still the way to hide a file, on *nix systems.
(Hence the "mistake", and the countless hours mentioned in TFA are still adding up, as people forget them when they shouldn't, or don't exclude them when they should…)
But it all makes sense, Windows is CP/M based, not Unix based.
a few decades ago macOS, amiga and atari were rather common, which all don't follow that convention. i don't know about BeOS/haiku. but if that hides dot-files then it's because they ported a lot of unix tools for commandline use.
i could not find anything about OS/2 but i suspect that it worked like windows.
I can't see how to do a git add to add all new files, including dot files, except those in .gitignore.