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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":".gitignore files not deleted before re-deployment","articleBody":"When deploying (and re-deploying) a tomcat web application in the emulator, I had trouble deploying an application as ROOT. The problem turned out to be that my project contained a .gitignore file under the WebContent folder. This file wasn't deleted between re-deployments, so the entire webapps/ROOT folder remained undeleted. When the application was re-deployed, tomcat didn't redeploy ROOT.war since it already existed.\n\nMy solution was to add `\u003cdefaultexcludes remove=\"**/.gitignore\"/\u003e` to package.xml under taskdef windowsazurepackage\n\nThis might happen not just git users since ant ignores other dot files as well  - http://ant.apache.org/manual/dirtasks.html#defaultexcludes.\n\nNote that leaving the deployment directory dirty might cause all kinds of problems, not just the issue I experienced. I suggest modifying the default package.xml template to account for that (or adding a convenient GUI option for doing so), plus documenting this issue.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/maltalex","@type":"Person","name":"maltalex"},"datePublished":"2014-12-18T10:36:18.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/11/WindowsAzureToolkitForEclipseWithJava/issues/11"}