> How would adding a .skip before trying to remove the directory help ?
I guess it would only help in case where you a recursive deletion of a big deployment could somehow trigger the scanner mid-ways.
> Yes I agree with this but the state changing files are still superuseful for both tools and users (i.e. .deploying, .deployed, .undeploying, .undeployed) IMO.
I agree they are useful. I am just saying that the ./deploy notion was successful because it was simple, albeit not perfect.
The end users will have the final say, if they like the new mechanism, or not.