svn commit: r689849 - /ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/ant.html

[bodewig]

Author: bodewig
Date: Thu Aug 28 08:15:57 2008
New Revision: 689849

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=689849&view=rev
Log:
I think this is telling the truth now (modulo allowNativeBasedir), but does 
anybody understand it?

Modified:
    ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/ant.html

Modified: ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/ant.html
URL: 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/ant.html?rev=689849&r1=689848&r2=689849&view=diff
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--- ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/ant.html (original)
+++ ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/ant.html Thu Aug 28 08:15:57 2008
@@ -286,6 +286,12 @@
   be the value specified on the command line - no matter how deeply
   nested into layers of build files the task may be.</p>
 
+<p>The samae happens if the basedir is specified as a
+  nested <code>&lt;property&gt;</code> of an <code>&lt;ant&gt;</code>
+  task.  The basedir of build files started at deeper levels will be
+  set to the specified value of the property element unless the
+  corresponding Ant tasks set the dir attribute explicitly.</p>
+
 <h3>Examples</h3>
 <blockquote><pre>
 &lt;ant antfile=&quot;subproject/subbuild.xml&quot; 
target=&quot;compile&quot;/&gt;