[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where exactly do you need this functionality?
I'm using ant to merge two directory's. I have two source directory's and one destination directory. If two the same files are found in the two source directory's I want to have the newest of the two in de destination directory. I use: <copydir src="source1" dest="destination" /> <copydir src="source2" dest="destination" /> The problem with this is that the copied files last modified time is the time of copying. So the files in source2 will never be copied to the destination because the time of the files in the destination are allways newer. > In just the <copy> and > <move> tasks, or is this a general feature? Would > > <copy keepdate="yes" ... /> > > satsify your needs? Yes, it would. But maybe it is more aproppiate to do it default. What do the most OS's do when copying a file? Hmmm, Midnight Commander preserves the last modified, but the cp command doesn't (I'm using Linux). Maybe this keepdate="yes" attribute is a better idea. Before hacking this in the code I would like to hear from other's what thay think is aproppriate. Jaco
