🚀 go-pugleaf

Hey y'all,


In my ANT script, I'm trying to add new files to a project existing in 
the CVS repository. The amount of new files and where they'll reside in 
the subdirectories of the project is not predictable (using JAXP, 
building javadoc, etc.).


Here's my problem. Cederqvist's CVS manual [http://www.cvshome.org/] 
states clearly that the add command is NOT recursive, which means that i 
always have to be in the subdirectory where my file resides in order to 
execute the cvs add command:

Wrong (Example Cederqvist):
# cvs add foo/bar

Correct:
# cd foo
# cvs add bar


Doesn't ANT support recursive adding of files (even in directories which 
don't exist in the repository)? Can't it find out on its own?


I tried to sort of make a diff between the repository and my local 
project. And then pass it to the CVS task.

<project name="foo" basedir=".">
   <!-- ... -->
   <target name="cvs-addNewFiles">
     <cvs command="cvs -q diff -u -N" output="o.txt"/>
     <!-- here, i might have to filter the o.txt file. Let's be
          optimistic and say the output of the diff consisted only
          of files to add. -->
     <replaceregexp file="o.txt" match="^\?" replace="" byline="true"/>
     <loadfile property="toBeAdded" srcFile="o.txt">
       <filterchain>
         <!-- Get rid of carriage returns. -->
         <striplinebreaks/>
       </filterchain>
     </loadfile>
     <cvs command="add">
       <parameter>${tobeAdded}</parameter>
     </cvs>
     <!-- Commit comes later. -->
   </target>
   <!-- ... -->
</project>


But unfortunately, it didn't work. The algorithm would probably look 
something like this:
while (o.txt is not empty after "cvs -q -u -N > o.txt") do
   remove all lines in o.txt not identifying a new file/dir to be added;
   add the file/dir to CVS repos;
end do;
commit;


Any ideas?


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