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Last time I tried I was still unable to create the file '.gitignore' on Windows 10 using the file browser. It insisted that I enter a file name and did not cons

Last time I tried I was still unable to create the file '.gitignore' on Windows 10 using the file browser. It insisted that I enter a file name and did not consider '.gitignore' an acceptable file name. It is possible to create that file using other tools such as an editor so it's a user interface shortcoming and not a filesystem shortcoming.

Dylan16807 9y ago
That one has a trick to it! Explorer rejects filenames that are "just extensions", but that's just a strong opinion it has. At the same time, there is a behavior that filenames ending in periods are actually invalid, and get the periods silently stripped by win32. So type ".gitignore." to name a file .gitignore