Cameron Crowe via bug-lilypond <bug-lilypond@gnu.org> writes: > Just a thought--not a bug. > > lilypond-book refuses to overwrite a main source file, but happily > overwrites secondary source files included into the main source > file. Irritating if you use the .tex extension for included chapters > of a musicological document and even just accidentally call > lilypond-book without specifying a separate output dir. > > "Don't do that." and "Version control!" would be perfectly good > responses,
Version control is not a substitute for backups. > and I probably have a few other minor (shrug-worth?) points if there > is interest in hearing them. Just anecdotally: on MSDOS file systems, writing a file whatever.tex.aux was equivalent to writing a file whatever.tex and when writing \include{something} in a LaTeX file, this caused a file something.aux to be created/written. This made the punishment for writing \include{something.tex} instead of the correct \include{something} pretty severe (until MikTeX was made to detect this special case and refuse the operation). -- David Kastrup