It's not intuitive, but we use something like this and it works ok. This erases all
files except the config directory and except for *.config in the top level directory
or in config\.
<delete failonerror="false">
<fileset>
<includes name="${build.dir}\*"/>
<includes name="${build.dir}\*\**"/>
<excludes name="${build.dir}\**\*.config"/>
<excludes name="${build.dir}\config"/>
</fileset>
</delete>
Oddly enough, even if there was a file named ${build.dir}\web\web.config, it would be
deleted even though **\*.config was excluded. It seems that this is because the
${build.dir}\web\ directory itself was included and that seems to take precedent. I
wish this behaved differently.
Also, to exclude a directory itself (not it's contents), you have to _not_ put \**
after the directory name (compare my ${build.dir}\config to your user\**. However,
just excluding "user" will only keep the empty directory around. If you want to
preserve the entire "user" subtree, you need to exclude both the directory and it's
contents:
<delete failonerror="false" verbose="true">
<fileset basedir="${dir.prod}">
<includes name="**" />
<excludes name="user" />
<excludes name="user\**" />
</fileset>
</delete>
Like I said, less than obvious, and less than friendly, but it works if you get the
hang of it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 9:56 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Nant-users] delete task - problem with exclude
When publishing my ASP.NET project, I want to leave two directories and their contents
in place, while deleting everything else. As I understand filesets, the following
should work. But user and Uploads get deleted. What am I missing?
<delete failonerror="false" verbose="true">
<fileset basedir="${dir.prod}">
<includes name="**" />
<excludes name="user\**" />
<excludes name="Uploads\**" />
</fileset>
</delete>
Here's an excerpt of nant's output:
[delete] Deleting directory E:\Intranet Sites\PDSIIntranet_Staging2\Uploads.
[delete] Deleting file E:\Intranet
Sites\PDSIIntranet_Staging2\user\fdf631873938627446875.fdf.
I'm using version 0.8.2.
Thanks,
Richard
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