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Posted to users@maven.apache.org by Jens Zastrow <je...@dai-labor.de> on 2005/05/02 15:58:38 UTC

ant:delete is evil

just deleted whole day of work in a second by uncommenting a
property-set.

<!-- j:set var="out" "${maven.build.dir}/blabla"-->
<ant:delete dir="${out}"/>	

simply removed the whole basedir.... :-(

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Re: delete is evil

Posted by Eric Wood <ap...@hostdepot.net>.
I had the same thing happen to me the other week and was fueled! Although if
you are using eclipse you can restore your files from local history. Good
luck.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vincent Massol" <vm...@pivolis.com>
To: "'Maven Users List'" <us...@maven.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 9:10 AM
Subject: RE: delete is evil


>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jens Zastrow [mailto:jens.zastrow@dai-labor.de]
> > Sent: lundi 2 mai 2005 15:59
> > To: Maven Users List
> > Subject: ant:delete is evil
> >
> > just deleted whole day of work in a second by uncommenting a
> > property-set.
> >
> > <!-- j:set var="out" "${maven.build.dir}/blabla"-->
> > <ant:delete dir="${out}"/>
> >
> > simply removed the whole basedir.... :-(
>
> Ouch...
>
> If it can help, consider yourself lucky it was only the basedir and not
your
> whole drive...
>
> -Vincent
>
>
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RE: delete is evil

Posted by Vincent Massol <vm...@pivolis.com>.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jens Zastrow [mailto:jens.zastrow@dai-labor.de]
> Sent: lundi 2 mai 2005 15:59
> To: Maven Users List
> Subject: ant:delete is evil
> 
> just deleted whole day of work in a second by uncommenting a
> property-set.
> 
> <!-- j:set var="out" "${maven.build.dir}/blabla"-->
> <ant:delete dir="${out}"/>
> 
> simply removed the whole basedir.... :-(

Ouch...

If it can help, consider yourself lucky it was only the basedir and not your
whole drive...

-Vincent


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