I think he's talking about not wanting to have to completely clear out the
*destination* tree each time and then completely rebuild it. If he just
copies the new files in the source tree, then files that have been deleted
from the source tree will not be deleted from the destination. Am I
Have you checked out move?
-Original Message-
From: Jeff Sahol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 9:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: synchronize directory task
Is there a task for synchronizing a directory structure from one
location to
another? I don't
Or copy?
Copy will only copy the files it needs.
-Original Message-
From: Matt Lyon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 14 November 2001 14:16
To: Ant Users List
Subject: RE: synchronize directory task
Have you checked out move?
-Original Message-
From: Jeff Sahol [mailto:[EMAIL
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 9:44 AM
Subject: RE: synchronize directory task
Or copy?
Copy will only copy the files it needs.
-Original Message-
From: Matt Lyon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 14 November 2001 14:16
To: Ant Users List
Subject: RE: synchronize
I never actually got the time to test this, but below is a response from a
similar question :
All,
I want to delete files from a local directory that no longer exist in
a previously mirrored directory. e.g.
c:/localdir
file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt
c:/otherdir
file1.txt
