Preserve build directory after cleaning

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  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Won't Fix
  • Affects Version/s: 2.4.1
  • Fix Version/s: None
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Description

I feel the need to preserve e.g. project.build.directory folder after deleting all files and folders within this folder by clean:clean.
Currently these default output folders are deleted entirely instead of beeing cleared.
This could be configured by configuration section in pom or by a property.

Thanks in advance.

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Mark Struberg added a comment -

I don't really get the benefit. What is the use case where you would need such a behaviour?
The idea behind dropping the directory is to be certain that you start on a defined base line.

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Mark Struberg added a comment - I don't really get the benefit. What is the use case where you would need such a behaviour? The idea behind dropping the directory is to be certain that you start on a defined base line.
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Björn Michael added a comment -

E.g. I use maven in conjunction with eclipse. The target folder is set derived in eclipse manually. Every time I launched mvn clean eclipse recognizes that the folder was deleted and derived flag is unset again.
Similar occurrences could happen with other third-party tools which validate a certain folder structure.

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Björn Michael added a comment - E.g. I use maven in conjunction with eclipse. The target folder is set derived in eclipse manually. Every time I launched mvn clean eclipse recognizes that the folder was deleted and derived flag is unset again. Similar occurrences could happen with other third-party tools which validate a certain folder structure.
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Benjamin Bentmann added a comment -

It might be worth to check the example configuration given in MCLEAN-44 and the parameter excludeDefaultDirectories

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Benjamin Bentmann added a comment - It might be worth to check the example configuration given in MCLEAN-44 and the parameter excludeDefaultDirectories
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Björn Michael added a comment - - edited

This is a solution indeed but a clear flag would be much more comfortable. It's up to you, I can live with this 'workaround'.

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Björn Michael added a comment - - edited This is a solution indeed but a clear flag would be much more comfortable. It's up to you, I can live with this 'workaround'.

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  • Assignee:
    Olivier Lamy
    Reporter:
    Björn Michael
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