Relates to #7848
This problem still persists in Vaadin 8.7.2 and applies to Subversion, CVS, Dimensions and probably others.
I added the ignoreNonThemeFolders option to the vaadin-maven-plugin and created PRs in vaadin/maven-plugin and vaadin/sass-compiler.
(vaadin/maven-plugin#116 and vaadin/sass-compiler#321)
With this option set to true the plugin looks for styles.scss in all folders under src/main/webapp/VAADIN/themes and will ignore failures due to folders created by versioning systems that do not contain a style definition. Information about failed attempts is printed to the console.
You can use it via
<configuration>
<ignoreNonThemeFolders>true</ignoreNonThemeFolders>
</configuration>
in the vaadin-maven-plugin