This is not an issue but a proposal for a very minor change that would make the creation of FileSets easier.
There is no fluent way of setting the usingDefaultExcludes flag in AbstractFileSet.

Due to this inconvenience instead of a completely fluent way of creating a FileSet instance:

fileSet(new File("foo")) .prefixed("pfx") .include(includes) .exclude(exc) .usingDefaultExcludes(usingDefaultExcludes); 

one needs to do it like this:

DefaultFileSet fileSet = fileSet(new File("foo")) .prefixed("pfx") .include(includes) .exclude(exc); fileSet.setUsingDefaultExcludes(false); 

The fileSet variable needs to be of type DefaultFileSet because the FileSet interface does not provide the setter.