Found a better workaround that just sets the path to the transaction log files. I put the log files in the target folder so that they don't come up in the subversion views.
I changed this line in domain.xml:
<transaction-service tx-log-dir="${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}/logs" />
to:
<transaction-service tx-log-dir="../../target/txlogs" />
Still dirty, but works.
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