Why would you have a symlink in your target folder to someplace important? On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Bouiaw <bou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Sorry to write again about clean plugin, but there is currently 2 VERY big > bugs in Maven clean with no workaround. > > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCLEAN-32 : when you have a big project > with > a lot of files (very common with war), Maven load in memory a complete > object representatof of the files that are in the target directory. With > one > of our projects that have some thousand of files, Maven fails to clean > target directory with a out of memory error even if we have set XMX to 768 > Mbytes !!! A rm -rf take 3 seconds and use no memory ! > > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCLEAN-39 : if you have a symlink in your > target that for example to /home directory, run mvn clean on the project. > Result : no more files in your /home directory. mvn clean follow symlink BY > DEFAULT and there is no way to avoid that even with additional > configuration > ! > > These are 2 oustanding issues that affect every body using Maven, I hope > Brian or anybody else will be able to fix these bugs. > > Regards, > Bouiaw >
