When uploading .content.xml file, some child nodes may get deleted

[marcinus]

I've had a following structure of files:

- myComponent [directory]
  - .content.xml
  - _cq_dialog.xml
  - _cq_editConfig.xml
  - myComponent.html

The contents of .content.xml was as following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jcr:root xmlns:cq="http://www.day.com/jcr/cq/1.0" xmlns:jcr="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0" 
    jcr:primaryType="cq:Component"
    someproperty="somevalue">
</jcr:root>

When uploaded this file using the Ctrl-P shortcut, the files (nodes) _cq_dialog.xml, _cq_editConfig.xml and myComponents.html got deleted from the JCR. This did not happen when uploading other files individually, or the whole folder.

This also did not happen when I explicitly specified child nodes in the .content.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jcr:root xmlns:cq="http://www.day.com/jcr/cq/1.0" xmlns:jcr="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0" 
    jcr:primaryType="cq:Component"
    someproperty="somevalue">
    <cq:dialog/>
    <cq:editConfig/>
    <myComponent.html/>
</jcr:root>

So apparently, uploading only .content.xml file into the JCR that does not have child nodes specified results in removing all child nodes from the repository. Perhaps it would be useful to detect such cases (eg. when there are other files in the working directory in the local file system). Then a warning, or an error could be raised, and a --force flag could be required to perform this action (just an idea).