>>> On 18.01.16 at 19:19, <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18/01/16 16:57, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>>> On 18.01.16 at 17:45, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 18/01/16 16:41, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>>>>> On 18.01.16 at 17:27, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> * Move '*~' and 'core' into the find rule. >>>> I don't understand this part: Where in the build process do such get >>>> generated? I'm tempted to instead recommend to just drop those >>>> from the rm invocation... >>> No idea about 'core' files, but *~ are emacs backup files. >> But emacs should clean up after itself; this shouldn't be the job >> of our clean rule. > > Why? the point is to have a one-revision old version of the file to hand.
I guess there may be different strategies here: My editor also creates such named files, but deletes them as the program gets shut down. I.e. the one-revision old backup exists as long as the program is running. I can see benefits from the alternative model, but still it shouldn't be our scripts to clean up such backups. After all - what if another program used another name patter for its backups? Would we go clean those up then too? Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
