huybrechts/hudson — comment on commit 1908f206d80d4c1f15f9279432689ea4dca5d5c6
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By ndeloof:

wouldn't it avoid this windows related side effect to simply encapsulate f.mkdirs() inside if (f.exists()) { .. } ?
being public API, maybe some external code expect getRootDir() to create the directory structure, so please don't change the current behavior