I believe the original intent of the svn-ant status task is to gather
information about one item. In fact, for a given file, it returns the
various status fields in properties. It is hard to imagine the expected
behaviour of this task if it was to accept a file set.
I have submitted a patch
(http://subclipse.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=1398) that
implements file selectors for svn-ant (see
http://subclipse.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=384). This is
probably closer to what you want. Given a file set, the svn-ant
selectors can discrimnate the files that have a given subversion status.
Those file selectors can be used with conditional types such as <and/>,
<or/> and <not/>. What you are left with is the task of verifying if
the file set is empty. I do not know such a task of the top of my head,
but you could easily write one or kludge <length/> into doing it.
The only drawback to the file selectors, as I have submitted them, is
that they can not detect missing and deleted files. This is because
those files no longer exist on the file system, and therefore are not
predicted by the internal file scanner. To do this, one would have to
implement a 'svnFileSet', which would use the output of 'svn ls' as the
basis of the scanning. A custom FileSet, such as that one, would be
useful in that it would allow the discovery of missing/deleted files as
well as ignoring all Subversion internal files (located in .svn
directories). The only problem is that, as of ANT 1.6.x, there is no
facility to create custom FileSet. Researching how likely it is feasible
to create a custom fileset has led me to believe that it is not a good
time to implement such a feature. ANT developers are currently working
on allowing custom FileSet and are expecting that it will be available
in ANT 1.7. However, it is such a big change (affect all fileset-based
task), I do not yet understand how it will affect the ANT 'landscape'.
If what you are looking for can work without detecting deleted and
missing files, then the file selectors are the way to go. Otherwise, you
might have to write your own task.
JP
Tejs Scharling wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I hope you can help me with the following problem.
>
>Using ANT in a release process, I need to check if my
>Working Copy is in sync with the Working Base (i.e.
>that I have updated and committed). The svnant status
>task only supplies me with the status of a single
>file/dir, and I need the status of the hole source
>tree (a bit like the graphical indication the windows
>tool TortoiseSVN gives me). Is there some way around
>this problem?
>
>If not, I can see that svnant uses the
>ISVNClientAdapter.getSingleFileStatus() method to get
>the status. Would it be possible to use the
>ISVNClientAdapter.getStatus(<source tree>, recurse)
>method and find the worst-case status of the returned
>status array.
>
>/ Tejs Scharling
>
>
>Tejs Scharling
>Rosensgade 18c, 3.tv.
>8000 Århus C
>
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Received on Wed Sep 21 23:15:33 2005