From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-06-19T22:49:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with Rake

Charles Comstock wrote:
> How come if a project has a dependency of task clean, which kills all 
> the tilde files, later tasks in the dependency list will still try and 
> create the tilde files that are missing, mistakenly believing they are 
> valid tasks or files?
>     Charles Comstock

If you have tasks that create tilde files (i.e. file names ending in ~), 
then rake will attempt to create these files when the appropriate task 
is triggered.  It does not matter if these files were deleted earlier by 
an unrelated task (such as :clean).

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the problem.  Do you have a short Rakefile 
example?

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