Re: Re: *.bak files in trunk?

[Daniel Mahler <dmahler@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Carsten Dominik
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 29, 2010, at 2:45 AM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
>
>> Daniel Mahler <dmahler@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Is this normal?
>>>
>>> mahler:~/ELISP/org-mode-git$ git status
>>> # On branch master
>>> nothing to commit (working directory clean)
>>> mahler:~/ELISP/org-mode-git$ find . -name "*.bak"
>>> ./lisp/ChangeLog.bak
>>> ./lisp/babel/langs/ob-C.el.bak
>>
>> ...
>>>
>>> ./lisp/org-capture.el.bak.bak.bak.bak
>>> ./lisp/org-macs.elc.bak.bak.bak.bak
>>> ./lisp/org-publish.elc.bak.bak.bak.bak
>>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> I don't think those files are in the repository but they are in  your
>> local working directory.  There is an entry '*.bak' in the .gitignore
>> file in the repository so 'git status' will not show these files by
>> default (since they are ignored).
>>
>> You can see untracked files with
>>
>> $ git ls-files -o
>>
>> $ git ls-files '*.bak'
>> returns nothing for me so there are no files ending in '.bak' in the
>> repository as far as I can tell.
>
> The bigger problem seems to be that something is creating these files.
> Bu I have no idea what, noting in Org-mode I would think,
> must be some utility or stuff in Daniel's setup.

That is the weird thing. The only thing I really
do in the org directory is "git pull" and make.
Also not tool I use makes *.bak directories,
emacs creates *~.
That, and the fact that git status/diff did not report them,
made me thing they were from the repository.
(I do not normally use git)

thanks
D

>
> - Carsten
>
>