Oh, you right. But you already answered your question! [?] Use excludeDefaultDirectories. It works fine, really. Be sure you use 2.3 version of maven-clean-plugin. (as it mentioned in documentation this option work only since 2.3)
<plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.3</version> <configuration> <excludeDefaultDirectories>true</excludeDefaultDirectories> </configuration> </plugin> 2009/8/5 Chris <she...@yahoo.com> > I can delete the directories ok. What I can't do is prevent it from > deleting the target directory. > > > Alexander wrote: > >> No maven-clean-plugin is more flexible. Read there >> http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/examples/delete_additional_files.html >> 2009/8/5 Chris <she...@yahoo.com <mailto:she...@yahoo.com>> >> >> I'm using maven-dependency-plugin to make a custom directory of >> dependencies. The trouble is that I can't find a way to delete the >> outputDirectory before the plugin runs so I can be sure there aren't >> any old files left over in it. >> >> I tried to use maven-clean-plugin to do it, but it insists on >> deleting the entire /target directory, which I don't want. It looks >> like there is an excludeDefaultDirectories option available on the >> command line, but putting >> <excludeDefaultDirectories>true</excludeDefaultDirectories> in the >> <configuration> section doesn't work. >> >> Any other suggestions? >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> <mailto:users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org> >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >> <mailto:users-h...@maven.apache.org> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Alexander >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > -- Alexander
