Why commiting htaccess.txt and not direct .htaccess

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Closed this issue 10 years ago · 4 comments

Everything is in the issue title!

Maybe there are some constraints I can't see, but the .htaccess file may be directly stored as .htaccess in the repository.

Answer 1 · 2013-09-15T13:55:40.000Z

If you are using a Mac you would have a problem with the .htaccess file as the .files are reserved for the system.

Answer 2 · 2013-09-15T14:01:21.000Z

No they're not, some might be like .DS_Store but everything else you can use freely, thank god.

Answer 3 · 2013-09-15T14:27:55.000Z

Ah sorry just went full retard -.- They just become invisible for people that don't have the hidden file feature enabled.

Answer 4 · 2013-10-20T22:34:10.000Z

People that use apache2 should know about the existance of .htaccess and the shortcut Cmd + H