I did the directory plus the contents of the directory thing and it worked. Definitely not intuitive, but at least my builds work now.
-Richard > -----Original Message----- > From: Morris, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 10:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Nant-users] delete task - problem with exclude > > I just ran into this issue the other day. > > I had to implement a work around by copying the file out to a different > directory, executing my delete task, and then copy the file back. > > I consider this a bug and I hope that it can be corrected soon. > > Jason > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erv Walter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 5:40 AM > To: Lawrence, Richard; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Nant-users] delete task - problem with exclude > > It's not intuitive, but we use something like this and it works ok. This > erases all files except the config directory and except for *.config in > the top level directory or in config\. > > <delete failonerror="false"> > <fileset> > <includes name="${build.dir}\*"/> > <includes name="${build.dir}\*\**"/> > <excludes name="${build.dir}\**\*.config"/> > <excludes name="${build.dir}\config"/> > </fileset> > </delete> > > Oddly enough, even if there was a file named ${build.dir}\web\web.config, > it would be deleted even though **\*.config was excluded. It seems that > this is because the ${build.dir}\web\ directory itself was included and > that seems to take precedent. I wish this behaved differently. > > Also, to exclude a directory itself (not it's contents), you have to _not_ > put \** after the directory name (compare my ${build.dir}\config to your > user\**. However, just excluding "user" will only keep the empty > directory around. If you want to preserve the entire "user" subtree, you > need to exclude both the directory and it's contents: > > <delete failonerror="false" verbose="true"> > <fileset basedir="${dir.prod}"> > <includes name="**" /> > <excludes name="user" /> > <excludes name="user\**" /> > </fileset> > </delete> > > Like I said, less than obvious, and less than friendly, but it works if > you get the hang of it. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lawrence, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 9:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Nant-users] delete task - problem with exclude > > When publishing my ASP.NET project, I want to leave two directories and > their contents in place, while deleting everything else. As I understand > filesets, the following should work. But user and Uploads get deleted. > What am I missing? > > <delete failonerror="false" verbose="true"> > <fileset basedir="${dir.prod}"> > <includes name="**" /> > <excludes name="user\**" /> > <excludes name="Uploads\**" /> > </fileset> > </delete> > > Here's an excerpt of nant's output: > > [delete] Deleting directory E:\Intranet > Sites\PDSIIntranet_Staging2\Uploads. > [delete] Deleting file E:\Intranet > Sites\PDSIIntranet_Staging2\user\fdf631873938627446875.fdf. > > I'm using version 0.8.2. > > Thanks, > > Richard > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Nant-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Nant-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Nant-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
