[MSITE-621] empty outputDirectory causes mvn clean to delete whole tree

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.1
• Component/s: documentation

Environment

Apache Maven 3.0.3 (r1075438; 2011-02-28 11:31:09-0600)
Maven home: D:\maven\apache-maven-3.0.3\bin\..
Java version: 1.6.0_24, vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java home: D:\j2sdk1.6.0_24\jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows 7", version: "6.1", arch: "x86", family: "windows"

• Assignee: Herve Boutemy
• Reporter: jmccaske
• Created: 07/Dec/11 09:55
• Updated: 08/Dec/11 01:19
• Resolved: 07/Dec/11 16:24

Description

On this page:

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-site-plugin/maven-3.html#Old_configuration_Maven_2__3

There is this little code snippet:

  <reporting>
    <excludeDefaults>true</excludeDefaults>
    <outputDirectory></outputDirectory>
    <plugins>

Notice the empty outputDirectory property? Well, in Maven 2.2.1 that appears to be ignored. In Maven 3.0.3 however, it deletes the entire project! The documentation for this should be changed as soon as possible. We lost a bit of work because of this.