Does CVS actually understand '10 minutes ago'?
C.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 12:31 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Getting a relative time from within Ant
>
>
> Chris,
>
> How about something like this:
>
> <target name="extract">
> <delete dir="${build.source}"/>
> <cvs cvsRoot="${build.cvsRoot}" command="-q checkout -D
> '10 minutes
> ago'"
> package="${build.package}" dest="."/>
> </target>
>
> Mickey Baker
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Greenlee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 11:17 AM
> Subject: Getting a relative time from within Ant
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> As part of our automated build process, we're checking out our project
> source into a clean directory on our build machine. We're
> using CVS to
> do this (and the cvs task), and it's working great. But after reading
> Martin Fowler's article on using ant and JUnit for doing continuous
> integration testing
> (http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.ht
ml), we've
decided we ought to be building testing the code that was checked in a
little while prior to the start time of the automated build. That way
no one is in the process of checking in files and screwing up
dependencies when we grab a version to build and test.
What I haven't been able to figure out is how we can get, from within
ant, the time ten minutes ago. Using <tstamp/> we can get the current
date and time, but that's not what we need -- we're looking for that
time minus ten minutes. Is there a way to do this?
(For now we're using ${DSTAMP} along with a time passed in on the
command line, but that's not really an elegant solution.)
Thanks in advance,
Chris Greenlee
