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Accessing a file in the parent folder, for maven ZIP plugin

A project in my university requires the .git and .gitingnore to be outside the project folder. However it also requires that my .gitignore be included in the zip created by a maven package. I have put the .git, .gitignore and the project in the same parent folder. Basically what I am trying to achieve is something like this in the .xml file concerned with the maven zip plugin: 

<fileSet>
        <directory>../</directory>
        <includes>
            <include>.gitignore</include>
        </includes>
        <outputDirectory>./</outputDirectory>
    </fileSet>

in order to be able to access the .gitignore that is in the parent folder. this however obviously does not work. Is there any way I could get a similar result?

Solution

  • the .gitignore file is excluded by maven from the zip. To include it, the following tag has to be put before the tag:

    <useDefaultExcludes>false</useDefaultExcludes>