From: Charles Comstock <cc1@...>
Date: 2004-06-20T03:48:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with Rake

Jim Weirich wrote:

> 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?
> 

No task creates ~ files in my rakefile, however, if my editor leaves ~ 
backup files strewn about the directory, rake attempts to make automatic 
tasks to recreate or process these ~ files.

Charles Comstock