On 2017-12-12, Jaikiran Pai wrote: > I went back and read up both these bugzilla reports again and I now > realize that supporting one doesn't necessarily mean not supporting > the other. BZ-43426 is about letting existing file be overwritten > (irrespective of the type of the file) if the overwrite flag is > true. BZ-58683 is about not overwriting any kind of file, if overwrite > flag is false (before the changes I introduced, it was in fact > overwriting files even when overwrite was false, a side-effect of the > ln -s usage).
Great! > So I have now pushed a fix[1] on top of my previous changes, which > should accommodate both these use cases (and continue to use Java 7 > APIs for symlinking). This is very useful, many thanks. We may want to modify the manual so it becomes clear that overwrite will replace regular files as well. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
