From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-06-20T13:13:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with Rake

Jim Weirich wrote:
> Charles Comstock wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Can I see an example rakefile that does this?

Just a quick update in case anyone is interested.  Charles sent me his 
Rakefile.  It was using Dir.glob('**/*') to build a list of files to be 
put into a package.  The glob runs before the clean task executes, so 
all the tilde files in the directory were included in the packaging 
list.  Then the clean task ran deleting all the tilde files.  Finally 
the package task ran, and it wanted to rebuild the tilde files (because 
they were in the package list).

The solution was to exclude the tilde files from the package list.  They 
  could be explicitly removed, or use a Rake::FileList object to build 
the package list.  FileLists are smart enough to deal with tilde files 
and other common temporary files.

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