Josh Sugnet wrote:
> Nico,
> thank you for the clarification, but I dont think I was clear enough in my
> original post on what I am trying to do. Abetter examples is the following.
> Suppose I have a directory named src in which I have a large source module
> checked out from a CVS repository. At every directory level in the src
> directory tree, there is a CVS directory. In shell, removing all these CVS
> direcoties from the source tree without removing any of the source files and
> directories can be done easily by doing a find and piping it to rm, something
> like `find src -name "CVS"|xargs rm -rf`. The src module is left behind
> intact, only all of the CVS directories are removed. What is the best way to
> do this same operation in ant? It seems like the fileset element only allows
> you to specify patterns of files and not directories. Any info is
> apprecieated.
What you are trying to do isn't supported in 1.2. It is in 1.3alpha as of
yesterday.
Lets assume you have your source tree rooted in ${src.dir}. So, to get rid of
all the files in the CVS directories you would do the following:
<delete>
<fileset dir="${src.dir}" usedefaultexcludes="no">
<include name="**/CVS/**" />
</fileset>
</delete>
The usedefaultexcludes attribute controls whether the set of things to exclude by
default are included when you create the fileset. This comes from a lot of
source trees having CVS directories that we just never want to copy. However,
there is the odd time when you want *everything*. In that case, use the
usedefaultexcludes attribute.
Unfortunately, it leaves the CVS directories behind. In the current CVS version
of Ant, you could say
<delete includeEmptyDirs="yes">
<fileset dir="${src.dir}" usedefaultexcludes="no">
<include name="**/CVS/**" />
</fileset>
</delete>
and that would do it.
The only other way to get the result you want with Ant 1.2 is to do the
following:
<copy todir="${tmp.dir}">
<fileset dir="${src.dir}" /> <!-- includes everything by default EXCEPT
cvs stuff -->
</copy>
<delete dir="${src.dir}" />
<move todir="${src.dir}">
<fileset dir="${tmp.dir}" />
</move>
Not nice, but it works.
Glenn McAllister
