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Spencer Cooley
Spencer Cooley

Reputation: 8851

Why would all of my files have duplicates with a '~' at the end?

I am building a site with code igniter and I am using git for version control. I am not sure why, but duplicates of my files keep popping up. If I have a home.php controller there is also a home.php~ controller. It is not really causing a problem with the functionality of the site, but it is weird and I don't like it. What exactly is going on?

My editor was set to backup files. I just had to turn it off. enter image description here

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1158

Answers (6)

Russell
Russell

Reputation: 17719

As ~ files are backup files, I have found backups useful when there has been an issue saving or the editor closes unexpectedly.

I prefer to have the backup files, but add these files to the .gitignore file to prevent them being added to source control:

Add this line to the .gitignore file to ignore files ending with a tilde ~:

*~

Upvotes: 1

Somnath Muluk
Somnath Muluk

Reputation: 57656

The tilde files are automatic backup files of the last version created by the text editors. You can turn off this automatic creation by editing the preferences of the text editor you use.

Upvotes: 4

Celada
Celada

Reputation: 22261

Conventially, the ~ suffix indicates a backup copy. It is usually created by an editor which saves a backup copy of the file (with the old contents) when you make changes to it. You area probably using an editor that does this.

I believe the convention to use ~ as a suffix for backup files started with a long time ago with emacs.

Upvotes: 2

JaredPar
JaredPar

Reputation: 754763

It sounds like you've been editting with vim and don't have the backup option disabled. By default vim will backup file edits with a file of the same name suffixed with ~. Try adding the following to your .vimrc

set nobackup

Upvotes: 1

Ernest Friedman-Hill
Ernest Friedman-Hill

Reputation: 81694

Emacs uses that convention to name the backup files it creates; have you been using Emacs? It's an old convention, so it's possible there are other things that use that format too.

Upvotes: 1

manojlds
manojlds

Reputation: 301147

Those are probably temporary / backup files created by an editor like emacs, vim etc. Anyway, such files would have nothing to do with git.

Upvotes: 2

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