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24890	Add warning to collectstatic when static files have clashing names	Markus Amalthea Magnuson	Markus Amalthea Magnuson	"If you have a project with several apps, some of which have static files directly in their `static` folder named identically, one of them will always be overwritten by the other when running `collectstatic`. The recommendation, and what is noted in the [https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/static-files/ documentation], is to namespace by keeping all static files belonging to an app in an additional subdirectory in the `static` folder named like the app name. But if you're not doing that, the result can be very confusing. I've seen many developers run into this and spending quite some time before figuring it out through the documentation or otherwise.

I think there should be a default system check that looks for clashing static file names as described above, and warn if there are files that will overwrite each other when running `collectstatic`."	New feature	closed	contrib.staticfiles	dev	Normal	fixed		markus.magnuson@…	Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0