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clarify in case people expect directories to be empty just because they don't contain any matched files

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Stefan Bodewig 17 years ago
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@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ be triggered when using nested filesets by setting the
<code>includeEmptyDirs</code> attribute to <i>true</i>. Note that this
attribute is meaningless in the context of any of the various resource
collection types that <i>do</i> include directories, but that no attempt
will be made to delete non-empty directories in any case.</p>
will be made to delete non-empty directories in any case. Whether a
directory is empty or not is decided by looking into the filesystem -
include or exclude patterns don't apply here.</p>
<p>
If you use this task to delete temporary files created by editors
and it doesn't seem to work, read up on the


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