Regeneration of file if already in place?

[cmeiklejohn]

I just spent a while debugging an issue with Riak KV, where if the src/.erl file that's generated by the tool, is already there but the include/ file is not, the include file is not regenerated. I ran into this because the src file had not been excluded by the .gitignore and had been accidentally committed. This caused all subsequent compilations to fail because the src file was never removed, and therefore the include file was never regenerated.

Is this expected behavior?

It also seems like with rebar3, these files should never be placed in the actual include/src directories, but only placed in the build output, therefore reducing the probability of this issue.

[lrascao]

It also seems like with rebar3, these files should never be placed in the actual include/src directories, but only placed in the build output, therefore reducing the probability of this issue.

This was a long time ago, but i think there was a reason for this behaviour, i'll try to dig up the history behind it and make the changes if it no longer applies