> You might want to rethink this concept of getting rid of 
"unnecessary" files.

Perhaps, but if I were you I would seriously reconsider having unknown 
(unnecessary) class files in your output directory.  Couldn't you put 
those other class files in a different directory?

 > Also, our build does a good amount of code generation, where java 
files are
 > generated and compiled.

Really?  How is maintaining that working out?

Kirk

Tom Wagner wrote:

>We have a large source tree.  I usually make projects that are rooted at a
>small part of that source tree.
>
>So my source root might be net/comanage/foo and my project root is
>net/comanage/foo/install.  If I tell my project to do a dependency based
>make, the first thing it does is delete all the class files in the output
>directory for things that aren't in the project.  This Is Bad.
>
>Also, our build does a good amount of code generation, where java files are
>generated and compiled.  I fear that even if I set my project root to be the
>root of the source tree, if I copied over the class files from a build
>machine, Idea would then blow away all the class files that go with
>generated files.
>
>You might want to rethink this concept of getting rid of "unnecessary"
>files.
>
>-Tom
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