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

It is probably better to use maven-resources-plugin with copy-resources goal to pull together the directories you need into one place. Create an execution for your basic directory structure and add subsequent executions for the customized parts. Setting the overwrite property of the goal to true will ensure that the custom files will overwrite the defaults.

Then in your assembly descriptors use the fileset you've just made.