[MRESOURCES-172] option to NOT use the default excludes for file sets

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: 2.6
• Component/s: copy
• Assignee: Karl Heinz Marbaise
• Reporter: Axel Wienberg
• Created: 21/Dec/12 09:43
• Updated: 27/Sep/14 14:28
• Resolved: 27/Sep/14 14:28

Description

It is currently not possible to copy a resource whose name starts with a dot (such as .DS_Store or .hiddenfile), or any other name that happens to match DirectoryScanner.DEFAULTEXCLUDES

These default excludes are added to every file set, no matter what includes or excludes the user has specified (e.g. an <include>.DS_Store</include> is silently ignored).

For these cases, the maven assembly plugin provides an option called useDefaultExcludes, which may be set to false.

The maven resource plugin should also offer such an option.