Jimisola Laursen opened MASSEMBLY-1002 and commented

Assembly fails to include directories when they are symbolic links.

E.g.

If the directory "${project.basedir}/target/surefire-reports" is a symbolic link to another directory then the following fileset will not work.

<fileSet>
 <directory>${project.basedir}/target/surefire-reports</directory>
 <outputDirectory>/test_results/surefire</outputDirectory>
 <includes>
 <include>*.*</include>
 </includes>
</fileSet>

However, if the directory "${project.basedir}/target/surefire-reports" is an actual directory (and not a symlinj ) and the files in that directory are symbolic links then it works as expected.

I'm guessing that this might not be a bug in this plugin but rather Maven Resources.
There is a related issue in terms of being about symlinks, but that ticket is about preserving symbolic links or not which in not the case here.

Affects: 3.6.0