diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webdav/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/archiva/webdav/ArchivaDavResource.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webdav/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/archiva/webdav/ArchivaDavResource.java
index 2a91141a4..a305fe830 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webdav/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/archiva/webdav/ArchivaDavResource.java
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webdav/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/archiva/webdav/ArchivaDavResource.java
@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ public class ArchivaDavResource
                 IOUtils.closeQuietly( stream );
             }
             
+            // TODO: a bad deployment shouldn't delete an existing file - do we need to write to a temporary location first?
             if ( inputContext.getContentLength() != localFile.length() )
             {
                 FileUtils.deleteQuietly( localFile );