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In Windows Explorer it will complain if you try and create a file starting with a dot, but I suspect that it's because extensions are hidden by default, so you'
by daemin 12y ago
In Windows Explorer it will complain if you try and create a file starting with a dot, but I suspect that it's because extensions are hidden by default, so you'd end up creating a file with no name.
Can easily create such files by other means (saving in notepad, sublime, etc).
- tokenizerrr 12y agoThere's a trick. You can for example name a file .gitignore. (with a starting and trailing dot), it will warn you about changing the extension which you agree to, and you're left with a file named .gitignore