The <copy> task should only copy files that have source-files newer than
their destination-files.

Diane

--- William Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I realized when using Ant is that rerunning some tasks may take a
> long time, even though the tasks may not be doing anything different,
> like copying the 10592 files to a different directory.  What I would
> like to do is to write something that detects that the files are already
> copied, like the existance of the directory, and then decide I can skip
> the copying.  What is the proper way to accomplish this in Ant?  It
> would be ideal if there is an optional "condition" for running each
> task, when the condition is met, then the task would be skipped. 
> Anyway, any suggestions on how to do this is very welcomed.
> 
> Thanks,
> Will


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