I've never seen that,internally generated?How does it work?
Can check what I meen here: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12401970/nutch_0.9_OR.patch
search "java~"
and you can see "java.old" there,what's that again?
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Are you sure its generated from some java process? ~ in files typically means a temporary file created by editors, such as vim when you modify something.
yx
2009-06-12 17:33:53
no,see my update.
Shore
2009-06-12 17:39:40
it looks like they just accidentally left the temporary file in there, and when the patch notes were released, they did a diff on all files to find changes and showed up in there as well. Notice that it had both a Query.java and a Query.java~ and the diff for those two are exactly the same.
yx
2009-06-12 17:44:14
and you can see "java.old" there,what's that again?
Shore
2009-06-12 17:47:41
same with .old, NutchAnalysis.java and NutchAnalysis.java.old, just a different form of backup with another text editor instead of ~. They should have removed them from the patch but they didn't, not a big deal. Safe to delete those files if you really wanted to.
yx
2009-06-12 17:56:46
Thanks,and what is supposed to happen when I apply that patch?I tried,but only files under "src.orig/" are modified,with files under "src/" untouched.
Shore
2009-06-12 18:00:38
if you look at the file path of the modified files, they are all in src.orig/java/org/apache... If you renamed your src folder, then you'll have to copy those files over manually. You can safely ignore the ~ and .old files though.
yx
2009-06-12 18:05:23
but --- means old file,+++ means new ones,why only old files are modified?
Shore
2009-06-12 18:12:45
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It's probably some cruft leftover from emacs. With emacs, whenever you save a file, it saves a backup of the previous version of the file, and the backup is named with the original filename with a tilde appended to it. If this is the case (which you can easily verify by comparing file with file~), then you can safely ignore all of the files named with tildes.
Adam Rosenfield
2009-06-12 17:34:00
Like he said, its cruft. It was added to the repository by mistake because whoever made the patch didn't exclude those files.
Soviut
2009-06-12 17:54:59