Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> John Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > If the target directory does not exist then the task should do a >> > straight rename since it is the most efficient. >> >> This is not enough I'm afraid. You have to be sure that you really >> want to include everything from the source directory so you'd have >> to check that there is exactly one nested fileset and this one >> doesn't hold any patterns (which implies no default excludes). >> > > This is way too complicated. I think we should just revive <rename> > or modify <move> to be able to say: > > <move from="oldName" toDir="newDir" /> > > <move from="oldName" to="newName" /> > > and these are plain renames. If the names correspond to different > file systems and cannot be renamed, the task should just fail > (as does the UNIX command).
Using move would be fine with me. We'll need some thorough documentation though. Stefan
