Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:18:10 +0100 (BST)
From: Johannes Schindelin <redacted>
cc: barkalow@iabervon.org, raa.lkml@gmail.com, ae@op5.se, tsuna@lrde.epita.fr, 
    git@vger.kernel.org

quoted

That's a ``feature'': Explorer is the parent of all the desktop
display.  Kinda like the login shell on Unix: if you kill it, there
goes your whole session.  Except that on Windows, the OS pays
attention and restarts Explorer right away to get you back in
business.  (In first versions of Windows, there was no restarting of
Explorer, so if you killed it, you needed to reboot :-()

I kinda knew that.  But what's now with your recommendation to never run 
Explorer?

I meant not to open "My Computer" and use the GUI for browsing the
directories.  If you meant that the touching of files is done even if
you don't open the GUI, then just ignore my advice: Explorer cannot be
killed.  I'm surprised that it touches files and directories,
though...