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Nick Pellow commented on MCLEAN-38:
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I saw MCLEAN-33, and it is not fine grained or flexible enough.
ie - the clean plugin can either delete all default directories, or none.
I considered excluding the default directories from cleaning, and then using
the filesets parameter. The problems with this approach however are:
# users are required to have duplicate configuration (ie - the build directory
locations) in their pom.xml
# the maven-clean-plugin will need to be added to the users pom
Allowing a simple String to be used, instead of a Collection, allows the
patterns to be passed in on the command line.
{code}
-Dexcludes=**/expensive.file1
{code}
It also allows other plugins (this is my use case), which are bound to the
pre-clean phase to set this property on the project to avoid specific files
being deleted when clean is run.
IMO, maven should support splitting of comma and space separated Strings into
Collection parameters automatically. This is exactly what Ant does. It would
make the pom a lot more readable, and allow passing of collection arguments on
the command line.
> Allow a global set of include and exclude filters
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>
> Key: MCLEAN-38
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCLEAN-38
> Project: Maven 2.x Clean Plugin
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 2.2
> Reporter: Nick Pellow
> Attachments: MCLEAN-38-maven-clean-plugin.patch
>
>
> I am about to submit a patch to the maven-clean-plugin which will allow a
> global includes and excludes patterns to be configured.
> Currently, it is not possibly to easily do a clean and have specific files in
> the default output directories preserved.
> The patch will allow a comma separated list of exclusions and inclusions to
> use when removing the default output directories.
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