Git compatibility: Spoon ignores files added as resources if they don't end in .java

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When Git runs a merge, it names the files .merge_file_blabla, and Spoon does not recognize these as proper Java files. A quick-fix would be to e.g. .merge_file_blabla to .merge_file_blabla.java, but that will cause a platform dependence. Not sure what the best solution is here.

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I can just subclass the VirtualFolder and override the getAllJavaFiles method to simply return all files.

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Okay, nope, this doesn't work. I managed to get around all safety measures in Spoon by subclassing VirtualFolder, Launcher and JDTBasedSpoonCompiler, but then the eclipse batch compiler interprets the file as a directory. Because it doesn't end in .java. I don't think I can get around that.

On Linux, an efficient solution here would be to create hardlink .merge_file_blabla to .merge_file_blabla.java, and then remove the hard link when the merge is done. On Windows, I don't really know ...

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Hard linking should work on both Windows and Linux