Automatic clean tasks for a copy task deletes the entire directory files were copied to rather than just the output files of the task

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It seems that the automatic clean tasks provided by gradle have a bug. If I have a copy task that copies some files to an existing directory and specifys the output of the tasks as follows:

filterRundeckConfig.outputs.files files("…/…/rundeck/rundeck_config/ssl.properties", “…/…/rundeck/rundeck_config/profile”)

gradle cleanFilterRundeckConfig

deletes the directory the files were copied to, not just the files that were copied.

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This seems to be a known issue, see http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/automatic_clean_for_a_copy_task_deletes_content_unrelated_to_it.