The way is ant is coded currently, it will stop processing excluded folders
if they are specified like :
foo/bar/**
not
**/bar/**
This needs to be improved.
Cheers,
Antone
> Hello:
>
> First off -- I must say thanks to everyone who has helped me in the past
> --
> I've learned a lot from the users listserv and my answers are always
> (incredibly!) quickly answered.
>
> I'm running into major speed issues when generating a fileset during a
> copy
> process which I'm doing to back up files during a deployment. The exact
> code follows:
> <copy todir="${deploy.backupPath.root}">
> <fileset dir="${deploy.path.root}"
>
excludes="**/${pathnames.wwwroot}/attributes/**,**/${pathnames.wwwroot}/imag
> es/**,**/${pathnames.wwwroot}/text/**">
> <include name="${pathnames.bin}/**" />
> <include name="${pathnames.certs}/**" />
> <include name="${pathnames.conf}/**" />
> <include name="${pathnames.cybersource}/**" />
> <include name="${pathnames.data}/**" />
> <include name="${pathnames.datadefn}/**" />
> <include name="${pathnames.properties}/**" />
> <include name="${pathnames.wwwroot}/**" />
> </fileset>
> </copy>
>
> Now this fileset is going through 520 sub-folders, for around 69,000 files
> *including* files in the excludes folders. On my test environment with a
> significantly slower machine but 1/8th the number of files this runs
> incredibly fast. I'm talking upwards of 15-20 minutes of the deployment
> server to generate this list.
>
> The only thing I can think is that it's itterating throgh the excluded
> folders as well (if I don't include the excluded folders the number of
> files
> drops by 2/3) which is causing it to be so slow. Is there another way I
> should be handling this?
>
> My only requirments are that my exclude list be able to be modified fairly
> easily (depending on the location of the build I'm doing).
> Anyone else had problems with slow fileset generation? The hope is that
> automating this process (done by hand now) will speed things up but at
> 15-20
> minutes for just the backup step it's deffinately not any faster!! Simply
> copying the files in windows explorer only takes about 4-5 minutes.
>
> Any tips would be GREATLY appreciated!
> Thanks,
> Brent
>
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