skin directory copied unconditionally to static site build

[Brolin Empey <br...@gmail.com>]

Forresters,

I noticed that when I rebuild my static site with Forrest 0.8, the
"skin" directory seems to be copied unconditionally to the build/site/
directory.  This means that, because the local files have been
rewritten and consequently have newer modification times than the
remote files, skin/ is uploaded each time I use lftp's reverse mirror
function to publish changes to my public Web site, even if nothing in
the skin has changed.

Can the Ant target that copies the non-generated content to
build/site/ be changed to only copy files (including skin files) if
the source file has changed?  Maybe rsync could be used to copy
non-generated content?

Thanks,
Brolin

Re: skin directory copied unconditionally to static site build

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

Brolin Empey wrote:
> Forresters,
> 
> I noticed that when I rebuild my static site with Forrest 0.8, the
> "skin" directory seems to be copied unconditionally to the build/site/
> directory.  This means that, because the local files have been
> rewritten and consequently have newer modification times than the
> remote files, skin/ is uploaded each time I use lftp's reverse mirror
> function to publish changes to my public Web site, even if nothing in
> the skin has changed.
> 
> Can the Ant target that copies the non-generated content to
> build/site/ be changed to only copy files (including skin files) if
> the source file has changed?  

I see no problem with that, but it would need testing thoroughly. If you 
do this testing on your own site and provide a patch we'd be happy to 
apply it.

without looking at our build file (forrest.build.xml) I think the 
copying of resources is done by the Ant Copy command, see 
http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/copy.html

Ross