[jira] Commented: (MASSEMBLY-144) wont put files in top level directory

["Basil James Whitehouse III (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Basil James Whitehouse III commented on MASSEMBLY-144:
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I think this has to do with includeBaseDirectory being false and the output directory being / .

A workaround that I discovered is to set the output directory to . (dot):
{code:xml}
<assembly>
    <id>bug-example</id>
    <formats>
        <format>zip</format>
    </formats>
    <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
    <files>
        <file>
            <source>TODO.txt</source>
            <outputDirectory>.</outputDirectory>
        </file>
    </files>
</assembly>
{code}

> wont put files in top level directory
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MASSEMBLY-144
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-144
>             Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.1
>         Environment: Windows XP using maven 2.0.4. I think I am using assembly 2.1 as that is the only version I could find in my ~/.m2 directory.
>            Reporter: Alan Kent
>            Assignee: John Casey
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.2-beta-1
>
>
> I am relatively new to Maven so hopefully this is not a silly mistake, but the following assembly XML file will NOT include the TODO.txt file. If you put the file into a subdirectory (using <outputDirectory>a/b/c</outputDirectory> or by setting <includeBaseDirectory>true</includeBaseDirectory>) then the file will appear in the ZIP file. This is at least non-intuitive, but feels like a bug to me. 
> <assembly>
> <id>bug-example</id>
> <formats>
> <format>zip</format>
> </formats>
> <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
> <files>
> <file>
> <source>TODO.txt</source>
> <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
> </file>
> </files>
> </assembly>

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