John Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I played around with the 'excludes' tag, but I couldn't come up with
> a combination that works. I'm suspecting that symbolic links are
> followed, even though the exclusion pattern is already matched. Am I
> correct?
symbolic links shouldn't be any special for pattern matching, I don't
think the code involved there uses getCanonicalPath which would expand
symlinks.
Could you give us an example of the file structure you have to deal
with and a set of patterns that doesn't work?
> Browsing through ant-user and ant-dev, it looks like a patch was
> suggested at one time to solve this, but was rejected.
Yes, now that you bring up the subject ... AFAIR this patch has
been submitted around the time we had a feature freeze for Ant 1.3 -
and probably got lost/forgotten after the release. I'm going to look
into it again.
Stefan
