Yes, I created a function for this state for two reasons: 1. To be consistent with the rest of the states 2. I think we should create a delay for FPGA to read the data although I added the delay in the exec state machine. This function will be mostly used as a place holder.
It is a "swap" file in Linux, containing the unsaved changes. It is a temporary file and sometimes if we do not ignore, we might accidentally add it to the commit.