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Windows File Explorer will be more powerful with version control and 7z
- Grimeton 2y agohttps://tortoisegit.org/ https://tortoisegit.org/ Just saying...
- Mayzie 2y agoOh my gosh, TortoiseSVN and TortoiseCVS. Now that's a blast from the past. Wow.
- SeriousM 2y agoThat's my daily driver
- Tempest1981 2y agoYep, donated. It has so many ways to diff, and a great cherry-picking UI.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoYeah, that's proof there's a need for Git integration in Explorer.
- sneed_chucker 2y agoWow, a pragmatic user-benefiting feature being added to Windows? That's certainly a breath of fresh air.
- fbdab103 2y agoThere must be a way to scrape some shareholder value out of the feature. Drink Verification Can to Push. Rebase is for Windows Pro subscribers only. Merge Right After this Ad!
- jayd16 2y agoProbably just pushing you towards GitHub.
- shiroiushi 2y ago>Merge Right After this Ad! I'd love to see this actually. I'm wondering just how many people would actually put up with it.
- thesuitonym 2y agoDrives users to Github. Is MSFT still reporting monthly user counts?
- lelanthran 2y ago> Drink Verification Can to Push. Rebase is for Windows Pro subscribers only. Merge Right After this Ad! While having git built into file explorer would be welcome, I'd rather it be limited to mostly read-only actions, with nice indicators (tracked/untracked/modified). The only real write-action would be to add/remove files to the index. I don't want a bug in explorer mangling my git repo and pushing the changes.
- hulitu 2y agoThey will, as usual, remove some features, to compensate. Remember left click ? Remember when your drives were in My Computer ?
- pyrolistical 2y agoI’m happy at the same time scared. Please don’t corrupt my git repo. Happy to see windows adding useful developer focused feature. Makes sense for file explorer to understand everything. If Microsoft really wanted, they could Sherlock everything.
- carom 2y agoGiven how they hijack paths with the WindowsApps\Python.exe, I am not hopeful. I have to handhold people setting up Python on Windows so they don't end up with the app store version, and they don't get their paths crossed and end up pip installing things in a version they don't use. It's seriously awful and the only solution is to delete the whole WindowsApps folders (safe to do, it just contains stubs).
- anonomousename 2y agoThe safer way is to disable the app execution aliases.
- Tempest1981 2y agoThanks! Found these: (UI and Powershell) https://www.elevenforum.com/t/turn-on-or-off-app-execution-aliases-in-windows-11.2681/ https://www.elevenforum.com/t/turn-on-or-off-app-execution-a... https://superuser.com/questions/1728816/manage-windows-app-execution-aliases-from-powershell https://superuser.com/questions/1728816/manage-windows-app-e...
- daveguy 2y ago> The Windows file navigator will natively interface with your Git and offer more file compression. No thank you. I'm happy with Microsoft having nothing to do with my Git.
- chii 2y agoThose points to somebody at Microsoft wanting to show impact and have promotions.
- surfingdino 2y agoI'm reasonably certain their actions will have an impact, not sure about that promotion, though.
- Log_out_ 2y agoembraceExtendextuinguish to opt out just complete this hazard obstacle course. Every day. St. Choice watches you suffer in regedit bureaucracy while enjoying the free market
- pnw_throwaway 2y agoGitLab user, then?
- FrostKiwi 2y agoThey already do, by owning the biggest supporting Platform: GitHub, though I hope the recent trend of embracing open source is triple E[1] without the "extinguish". [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...
- pipeline_peak 2y agoHow about not two sets of common folders e.g Documents from true dreadful “This PC” and Documebts from c:\users\name\Documents Or retaining settings, I swear every time I set file view to detailed it goes back to something else. I’d have no problem switching file managers, but like everything bolted on Windows, it has higher ordinance.
- bigmattystyles 2y agoDon't forget the onedrive version of these folders I never asked for either. It may have been installed by my corporate overlord, but still, talk about muddled design.
- hulitu 2y ago> How about not two sets of common folders e.g Documents from true dreadful “This PC” and Documebts from c:\users\name\Documents They are working hard on this feature. They want all you files in OneDrive so the NSA can search them freely, without the need to connect to your computer.
- kmoser 2y ago> Microsoft says it’s also letting File Explorer natively compress files to 7-zip and TAR; currently, the right-click context menu has a “Compress to ZIP file” option, but ZIP is thought to be a bit antiquated in terms of how much compression you get. ZIP is antiquated...but TAR isn't?
- lmm 2y ago> ZIP is antiquated...but TAR isn't? No, because tar only does archiving and is usually combined with a separate compressor - gzip, bzip2, lzip, and no doubt new and exciting compressors that have yet to be invented. So tar (with a suitable modern compressor) is still relevant today.
- Jamie9912 2y ago[flagged]
- FrostKiwi 2y agoI agree, that it is antiquated. > suitable modern compressor I would expect a suitable modern compressor to handle files by itself and fail to handle file related things if given a tar archive.
- MobiusHorizons 2y agoBlock based compressors like gzip, bzip2, xz, lzma, etc don’t natively know how to compress multiple files, to them it’s just bytes in bytes out. Using these with tar allows both archive (multiple files / directories in one file) as well as compression. Such usage has the potential for higher compression ratios because it can deduplicate across the entire archive. Zip compresses each file individually, but has an uncompressed index. Tools like 7z use standard compression algorithms (I believe Lzma) with a different archive format. It’s all about how you want to integrate or customize your tools.
- jimbobthrowawy 2y agoTar isn't a great archival (by which I mean combining multiple files into one file) format for most people, since it emulates tape by putting records of what file you just read right in line with the data. To access a single file from a tar, you have to read the archive sequentially until you get to the record for that file. (assuming there's only one copy of that file in there) Most other formats put data about what files are contained inside at the end of the file, so you need to read much less of it. Being able to append tar files together is a killer feature though, and it's not going anywhere.
- b4ckup 2y agoThere's a lot of things the file explorer needs. Git is not one of them.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoMillions (or however many) devs and managers installing TortoiseGit in Windows-first shops would beg to differ.
- 0x073 2y agoMaybe this will break tortoisegit AND your local git. Years ago I would be happy for such a feature, now I'm worried.
- hulitu 2y agoThey don't implement old requirements. They only implement the new ones. /s
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoThere is just no way I would trust any change Microsoft makes at this point. They will abuse their position to violate your privacy. Consent means nothing to these shameless monopolists.
- hulitu 2y agoYou consented when you installed Windows. It is for your protection. /s
- ldx1024 2y agoI'd be happy with File Explorer not giving the circle of death and the green bar of despair on a regular basis. Microsoft, can you fix these basic usability problems first before shoving more bloat into the tool?
- daemonologist 2y agoI'd be happy if it just didn't take the taskbar and start menu with it when it crashed. Why are they so intertwined? (They do eventually restart automatically, but still.)
- MaxikCZ 2y agoI love when I accidentally happen to drag a file over disconnected network drive and whole explorer freezes for 30 seconds...
- anjel 2y agoThis.
- MaXtreeM 2y agoWindows has been for years corrupting files unzipped via explorer. I am not going to trust them with 7-zip now.
- mock-possum 2y agoIs there a particular known issue you’re referring to? I’m curious, I’ve never seen that behavior.
- MaXtreeM 2y agoWe had some zip files that if content was unzipped with 7-zip the files were correct but not if unzipped with Windows explorer. I am struggling to remember what were the contents of the zip files I think it was some data that was loaded by our or third party application what would produce a crash if not unzipped correctly. I never got to the root cause because coworker told me to "fix" it by using 7-zip and was not bothered by it since then, only when I passed the knowledge to newer coworkers. It was happening still on Windows 10.
- kallistisoft 2y agoIt never fails to amuse me that the "exciting" things that Microsoft does to Windows always falls into one of two categories: 1. Implementing features that have been available in Linux/MacOS for years 2. Adding interoperability capabilities I'm happy Microsoft is slowly catching up with the times, but it's still not a good look
- M95D 2y ago> I'm happy Microsoft is slowly catching up with the times If that includes web pages as GUI, then I'm NOT happy. I wish Linux would catch up to Win3.1 GDI32, COMCTL, MFC & OLE.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoDon't forget, 3. Pushing you towards paid MS SaaS tools (prominently OneDrive)
- hello_computer 2y ago[flagged]
- TZubiri 2y agoWindows is that family member or gf who you've had quarrels in the past, but you keep coming back to due to blood/shared history. Also since then we've experienced much worse, so we laugh at the shit we used to complain about. Dev: "Remember when we fought because you wouldn't give me source code?" MSFT: "Yeah. To be honest I didn't even have the source code for half the stuff you wanted." Dev: "Well, nowadays I'm lucky if I even get a binary." MSFT: "Why didn't we think of that? Maybe we can turn office into a cloud service..."
- albertopv 2y agoHow many Git integration will benefit? 0.1% of windows users? Git is one of those things devs are capable to manage theirself, updating when needed etc. A faster File Explorer or a taskbar that doesn't suck (open faster, movable on the side, calendar on all screen, removable recommendations...) would benefit many more.
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- jimbobthrowawy 2y agoThis post seems to be over a month old, I wonder when this feature is coming. I hope regular windows users start using git more often because of this. It'd be pretty killer in an office setting.
- thesnide 2y agoFun fact: according to the screenshot, the .git directory itself is versioned... so, it is either a bug, a mock screenshot or an intriguing feature.
- _hao 2y agoI can't wait Disk Voyager to come out so I can ditch File Explorer - https://www.diskvoyager.com https://www.diskvoyager.com
- Numerlor 2y agoMy experience with the new compression formats they added to Explorer has not been great, overall performance is poor, larger files get stuck and it straight up can't extract some perfectly valid files. I'm wary of more integrations if they didn't polish something that regular people may use daily
- Apreche 2y agoIt’s great to add support for 7z and such, but there may be a problem. My friends in game dev frequently work with large files. They often bundle and compress them for storage and sharing. They were happy to hear that Windows would add support for these formats directly rather than requiring third party software to get the job done. Sadly, the people who tried it reported back that the Windows-provided functionality was incredibly slow. When working with files of immense size like they do, using the official Windows compression and decompression was costing them significantly more time looking at progress bars than the third party apps. If this is true in the final stable release, then what’s the point of adding the feature at all? It only helps out people who rarely use those compression formats, and only work with smaller files.
- siproprio 2y agoThe zip/tar.gz support is just slow. It's just another thing that you'll have to manually disable now.