Changing sbt project's directory layout

Question

According to sbt tutorial on changing paths I'm trying to change "target" output directory to "someother"

override def outputDirectoryName = "someother"

Everything goes fine except one: sbt automatically creates target directory with ".history" file inside. Why sbt does this when it supposed do create only "someother" dir ? I tryied to override all methods that are inherited from BasicProjectPaths (I use sbt.DefaultProject as superclass of my project descriptor)

override def mainCompilePath = ...
override def testCompilePath = ...
...

But sbt creates "target" folder in spite of paths overriding.

Answer 1

It certainly seems that it should use the overridden outputDirectoryName in trunk...

/** The path to the file that provides persistence for history. */
def historyPath: Option[Path] = Some(outputRootPath / ".history")
def outputPath = crossPath(outputRootPath)
def outputRootPath: Path = outputDirectoryName
def outputDirectoryName = DefaultOutputDirectoryName

(from SBT's current trunk).

It may have been different in a previous version. Have you considered raising a new bug?