How do I suppress maven assembly plugin skipping files that are already added? Or allow overwrite?

Question

For weeks, I\'ve been wrestling with maven, getting it to deploy our project \"properly.\"

I\'m almost done but I have one stubborn little problem:

When I use th

Answer 1

The Plexus bug mentioned by vocaro has been fixed. Using the maven-assembly-plugin with version 2.4 (highest at time of writing) does not print the verbose messages.