issue with -skip directive, tries to delete parent directory

Hi,

I've been using basic WebDeploy (understand VS deployments) for some time and am very happy with it.

However, I'm faced with a problem I can't resolve:
I want to deploy a WebDeploy package to an IIS box. Problem is I want to keep some folders in the folder where the package will be deployed.
As an example, here's the hierarchy of the root folder:

• App_Data
• bin
• ...
• Documents
  • To Keep
  • To Delete

Alright, I want the deployment to keep the "Documents\To Keep" folder intact and not delete it, so I came up with the following skip directive:

msdeploy [arguments here] -skip:Directory=".*\\Documents\\To Keep$"

Here's the output when I run the command with the -whatif flag

Info: Object dirPath (Default Web Site/MyWebSite\Documents\To Keep) skipped due to skip directive 'CommandLineSkipDirective 1'.
Info: Deleting directory (Default Web Site/MyWebSite\Documents\To Delete).
Info: Deleting directory (Default Web Site/MyWebSite\Documents).

The two first lines are the behavior I expect. But the third... WebDeploy tries to delete the parent folder of the one I specified to NOT delete, and fails to do so if I remove the -whatif flag, I guess because the Documents folder is not empty.

I then tried to include another skip directive to prevent the Documents folder to be deleted, like this:

msdeploy [arguments here] -skip:Directory=".*\\Documents\\To Keep$" -skip:Directory=".\\Documents$"

but then the output is the following:

Info: Object dirPath (Default Web Site/MyWebSite\Documents) skipped due to skip directive 'CommandLineSkipDirective 2'.

I also tried changing the order of the skip directives, but it didn't change anything.
I'm struggling on this one, I found a similar case on this thread, but there was no answer.

Thanks in advance, I hope there's a way to achieve this.
Sincerely,

Mickaël