# How to clean the top level project?

**URL:** <https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-to-clean-the-top-level-project/14954>\
**Category:** Help/Discuss\
**Created:** [March 4, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-to-clean-the-top-level-project/14954 "2016-03-04T21:00:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-to-clean-the-top-level-project/14954/9 "2016-03-22T20:10:55Z")

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Ok. I’ve been on vacation and am only now getting back to this issue. I tried the approach mentioned in [the link that Stefan originally provided](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/is-it-possible-to-partial-override-clean-task/7100) and it does work; however, it produces a deprecation warning message:

> Defining custom ‘clean’ task when using the standard Gradle lifecycle plugins has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 3.0

So this does not seem like a stable solution. Is there another way?

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