does not work: the files never get deleted

March 20th, 2009
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Applies to:
Ant

Description:
Occurs while using Apache Ant.

Cause:
You have used a task to delete unwanted SourceSafe control files (CVS files, editor backup files, etc.)

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  1. admin
    March 20th, 2009 at 10:28 | #1
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    This is probably happening because, by default, Ant excludes SourceSafe control files (vssver.scc) and certain other files from FileSets.
    Here’s what you probably did:


    You need to switch off the default exclusions, and it will work:

    defaultexcludes="no"/>

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