It turned out that, in my case, I was unthinkingly using overwrite="yes". I should RTFM ;-) Now all works great -- only files changed are copied. Thanks for all the help, -- Chris
-----Original Message----- From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 12:32 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: copying on files changed nope. I'll try and put together a test to show if this is really happening; there isnt actually one in the copy junit test by the look of things. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ma, Jian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ant Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 7:24 PM Subject: RE: copying on files changed > I'm doing this on windows2000, NTFS system using ant1.4.1. I was surprised > to find this behavior and the only other co-worker who's using ant observed > the similiar thing. Do you have any idea why? Thank you. > > Jian"Chuck" Ma > KMV LLC > 1620 Montgomery St. Suite 140 > San Francisco, CA 94111 > 415-352-1157(w) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 7:08 PM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: copying on files changed > > > My experience differs from yours, and my experience is backed up by a quick > glance at the code and the places where there are tests such as: > > if (src.lastModified() > dest.lastModified()) { > task.log(files[i]+" added as "+dest.getAbsolutePath()+" > is outdated.", > Project.MSG_VERBOSE); > > [in SourceFileScanner.java, and again in FileUtils.java] > > And personal experiences where I forgot that <copy> was timestamp based and > one day got burned when the date of the destination postdated the source (on > CD) , and our install failed. > > If copy really does not work for you, then it may be due to clock > differences across a network, or something. As an aside, are you doing this > on a DOS, rather than NTFS file system? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ma, Jian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Ant Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 6:37 PM > Subject: RE: copying on files changed > > > > my experience with copy is that if the destination file exists already, it > > doesn't do anything even if you've made changes to the src file(It could > be > > I didn't set some attribute correctly). I used <dependset> to solve this > > problem. You can define dependent relationship between src and target > > files. Whenever src files got changed, ant detects it and remove all the > > target files to force copy to regenerate them. > > > > Jian"Chuck" Ma > > KMV LLC > > 1620 Montgomery St. Suite 140 > > San Francisco, CA 94111 > > 415-352-1157(w) > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
