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Glen Mazza commented on MECLIPSE-731:
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No, that request is over six years old, with no other voters, and it was never
intended that default be to retain the settings folder by default. This was
just a bug that had popped up between 2.8 and 2.9. eclipse:clean now does what
it is supposed to do.
> eclipse:clean not deleting ./settings folder that it creates
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>
> Key: MECLIPSE-731
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MECLIPSE-731
> Project: Maven 2.x Eclipse Plugin
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 2.9
> Environment: Maven 3.0.3 maven-eclipse-plugin 2.9
> Reporter: Glen Mazza
> Assignee: Olivier Lamy
> Fix For: 2.10
>
>
> Hi, I use mvn eclipse:eclipse to create Eclipse projects that I subsequently
> import into my IDE. I then make code changes, and run mvn eclipse:clean
> prior to uploading my changes to GitHub.
> Problem is that eclipse:clean is not deleting the ./settings folder, giving
> me this list of files that I have to manually delete before I can do a simple
> git add . prior to committing:
> gmazza@ubuntu:/media/work1/jersey-samples-on-cxf$ git status
> # On branch master
> # Untracked files:
> # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
> #
> # entity-provider/.settings/
> # exceptions/.settings/
> # helloworld-webapp/.settings/
> # helloworld/.settings/
> # https-server-glassfish/.settings/
> # jacksonjsonprovider/.settings/
> # json-from-jaxb/.settings/
> # jsonp/.settings/
> # simple-console/.settings/
> # simple-servlet/.settings/
> The Linux command I otherwise have to run to delete all these settings
> folders: find . -name '.settings' -type d | xargs rm -rf {} \; is quite
> complex and outside the capabilities of many/most Linux users (like me, I got
> the above command from Olivier Lamy).
> mvn eclipse:help says it's already supposed to delete the .settings folder:
> Maven Eclipse Plugin 2.9
> The Eclipse Plugin is used to generate Eclipse IDE files (.project,
> .classpath
> and the .settings folder) from a POM.
> This plugin has 13 goals:
> ...
> eclipse:clean
> Deletes the .project, .classpath, .wtpmodules files and .settings folder
> used
> by Eclipse.
> ...
> Apparently the deletion of the .settings folder was made to please the people
> who posted http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MECLIPSE-71 -- I would say theirs
> is minority use case (~10-15%?) though of just wanting mvn eclipse:clean to
> delete just some but not all of the artifacts that mvn eclipse:eclipse
> created; therefore some plugin configuration setting like
> <keepSettingsFolder>true</keepSettingsFolder> should be created with a
> default value of "false" to not require this explicit configuration for the
> most common use-case; however if backwards compatibility is a concern the
> default value for this setting can be set to true. Regardless, eclipse:help
> should be updated to inform people to put in this setting to exclude/include
> deletion of the ".settings" folder. Thanks!
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