Re: [egit-dev] test m2e build with OSGi support

[Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2010/1/9 Igor Fedorenko <ifedorenko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

As I mentioned earlier, there are couple of known problems with m2e/osgi
support. I consider them minor inconveniences but your opinion may vary.

Specifically,

* On Windows I had to set core.hideDotFiles=false before cloning egit on
cli. Otherwise project import would fail with Access Denied Error
updating .project files. I do not use Windows much, so I don't know
whether this was expected.

The problem was reported on the git list here :
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/134866/focus=135201

Setting git configuration parameter core.hideDotFiles=false in ~/.gitconfig 
before cloning is solving this problem. 

Looks like the following fix in msysgit will workaround the problem caused by Eclipse which
seems not to allow writing to hidden files : 
http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit/browse_thread/thread/2480ba1823dc169b/cb0a4330?pli=1

Maybe somebody here on this list has an idea why Eclipse prevents writing hidden files ?

--
Matthias