Maven integration does not exclude target folders?

IIRC subdirectories of the target folder are excluded but not the target folder itself

Yeah, but why is that? Many builds, mine included, generate a number of files in that directory. What purpose is served by excluding the subdirectories of that folder instead of the folder itself?

What's worse, even if I do go to the trouble of manually excluding that folder in my module settings, as soon as I synchronize, Idea overwrites my change and the target folder and all of the files in it once again clutter up my project tree.

Is there any viable workaround for this?

Matt

I think it is as designed. It needs to exclude the target folder AND all sub-directories.

Here is a relavant thread for this issue:
http://intellij.net/forums/thread.jspa;jsessionid=3E7B241907B9D65AEEEDEABEF9C72B1F?messageID=5203461&#5203461.

Here are some jira issues:
IDEA-17737
IDEA-14282