Why don't you just make this folder a subfolder of /target and when you want
this cleaned out, you run clean?

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Alexander <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 <[email protected]>
>
>> 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 <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>>
>>>    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?
>>>
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