From 61cdb478bff6fcae2ab55393369fbf5084212fd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Bodewig Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:24:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] clarify in case people expect directories to be empty just because they don't contain any matched files git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@671415 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- docs/manual/CoreTasks/delete.html | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/delete.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/delete.html index 545277afb..27ba707d3 100644 --- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/delete.html +++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/delete.html @@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ be triggered when using nested filesets by setting the includeEmptyDirs attribute to true. Note that this attribute is meaningless in the context of any of the various resource collection types that do include directories, but that no attempt -will be made to delete non-empty directories in any case.

+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.

If you use this task to delete temporary files created by editors and it doesn't seem to work, read up on the