# Gradle war task is adding files twice beginning in 3.x

**URL:** <https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-war-task-is-adding-files-twice-beginning-in-3-x/20252>\
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**Created:** [October 31, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-war-task-is-adding-files-twice-beginning-in-3-x/20252 "2016-10-31T15:51:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![aliceyoung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@aliceyoung](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/aliceyoung)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-war-task-is-adding-files-twice-beginning-in-3-x/20252/1 "2016-10-31T15:51:27Z")

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After upgrading gradle from 2.x to 3.1, my war files bloated to 100MB larger (about 30%) than normal. When unpacked, the total of the files on disk were just the usual size. I discovered while pulling a file out of the war manually, it was actually in there twice. I was able to duplicate this with 3.2-rc-1 with this super-simple build.gradle and two files, just a .jsp and web.xml:

```
apply plugin: 'war'
war {
    from "${projectDir}/src/main/webapp"
}

```

Then, list the files of the created war with jar tf blah.war:

```
META-INF/
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
WEB-INF/
WEB-INF/blah.jsp
WEB-INF/web.xml
WEB-INF/blah.jsp
WEB-INF/web.xml

```

Those two files are present twice. What’s going wrong here? In my main project, jar files are not duplicated (thankfully), but all images, jsp’s, css, js, etc. are.