Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What's the difference bitween 'junk' and 'backup' ?

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Tez Kamihira <address@hidden>

    > OK. I'll change my question.

    > If 'junk' and 'backup' groups are handled by tla differently,
    > it should be reflected in tla's soure code.

It is but not as directly as you might think.

Some files (e.g., ",,*") are hard-wired junk files -- you can't
override that syntax.   Tla will freely delete a certain subset of
those files if it needs to.

And, all the junk files that tla creates have hard-wired names --- so
if you think there are some in your tree, you can get rid of them with
an `inventory' piped into `xargs rm -r'.

Tla doesn't ever systematically go through and delete _all_ junk files
itself, but the `inventory | xargs rm -r' idiom is supposed to be
generally useful to users.

Since tla implicitly has a naming convention for files that can be
deleted, it's just consistent with the other naming conventions to let
users extend it.

So, that's why there's "junk".

But now you might also need to designate files not copied when copying
project trees, but also not present in the `inventory | xargs rm -r'
list --- hence "backup".

    > I'm not clear ?

I understood you perfectly well in the first place .... 

-t