includeemptydirs for TarTask

[anonymous]

If you have an exclude statement like:

<exclude name=".svn/"/>

and the .svn directory is a directory with no other files or directories in the .svn is not excluded. If you, however, call the tartask with: <tar ... includeemptydirs="false">

the .svn folders are not included. First, this parameter isn't included in the documentation. I found it in the code. Why is this not mentioned in the docs?

Secondly, it appears there is a bug of some sort in this case because without setting the includeemptydirs false the .svn directory is included only when it is the only entity in the directory. If you add a file to the same directory it is excluded.

[anonymous]

using version 2.3.0

[mrook]

(In [535]) Refs #276 - add missing attributes to TarTask documentation

[mrook]

With this build file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="test" default="test" basedir=".">

<target name="test">
        <delete file="test.tar.gz"/>
        <tar destfile="test.tar.gz" compression="gzip">
                <fileset dir="test">
                        <include name="**/**"/>
                        <exclude name=".svn/**"/>
                </fileset>
        </tar>
</target>

</project>

and a test directory containing a single empty directory '.svn', I can't reproduce this.

[opi@…]

can confirm the problem.

Directorty structure like:

/project /project/.svn /project/cache /project/cache/.svn

with <tar ... includeemptydirs="false"> <fileset dir="test">

<include name="/"/> <exclude name=".svn"/>

</fileset>

the cache directory is missing and with

<tar ... includeemptydirs="true"> <fileset dir="test">

<include name="/"/> <exclude name=".svn"/>

</fileset>

the cache directory have the .svn directory included.

[mrook]

Can you test using the latest SVN code? This was fixed, see ticket #654.

[opi@…]

Will try after releasing a new pear package (RC or stable).

[mrook]

Very well, closing this ticket - please re-open #654 if you encounter this after the next release.