> -----Original Message-----
> From: jhoomshar...@netscape.net [mailto:jhoomshar...@netscape.net]
> Sent: 29 November 2010 07:08
> To: user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: Exclude and Include folders
>
>
> I want to include and exclude folders from directory listing,
> say I have following folders:
> Abc/workspace
> Def/workspace
> Ghi/workspace
> Jkl/workspace
> Mno/workspace
>
> And so on
> I want to generate a tar file for the above folders but wants
> to exclude all "workspace" folders, I tried like this:
>
> <tar destfile="archive_${KILLME}.tar" >
> <tarfileset dir="${base.dir}">
> <filename name="jobs/"/>
> <not>
> <filename name="jobs/**/workspace/"/>
> </not>
> </tarfileset>
> </tar>
>
> But it takes forever to generate tar file because each of
> "workspace" directory conatins huge data and these are the
> folders I want to exclude in my tar file.
> Any idea where I am wrong or any thoughts should I do to
> resolve this issue.
I'm not familiar with how Ant's fileset scanner is coded, but from my use of it
I suspect that the following is what is happening.
Filename entries are treated as selectors, and are applied after the fileset
scanner has built a list of directories and files. So it will scan for
everything and if some of the directories you wish to exclude have large
numbers of files in them, they will be included in the initial list and
subsequently discarded.
If you make use of the exclude (possibly also the include as well, but not
sure) tag, then when the fileset is scanning for files it will use the exclude
value to skip scanning anything that matches. So if the directories that you
want to exclude have a lot of child elements, using exclude will reduce the
number of files that are scanned and added to the internal list for comparison
against the includes list.
Given that you have a large number of files under the workspace directories
it's likely that using exclude instead of a negative filename test would be
faster.
So try something like the following instead. Not tested, so you may need to
adjust the patterns.
<tar destfile="archive_${KILLME}.tar" >
<tarfileset dir="${base.dir}">
<include name="jobs/**" />
<exclude name="**/workspace" />
</tarfileset>
</tar>
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Regards,
Darragh Bailey
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