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Posted to user@ant.apache.org by Peter Reilly <pe...@corvil.com> on 2004/01/27 18:21:46 UTC

Re: creation tar file -> ignores '.cvsignore' file

see:
http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/defaultexcludes.html

Peter
Pedro Salazar wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>I created a target task which uses the <tar> ant task to build a tar
>file of my source project (the source directory is "."). However, I
>detected a strange behavior in the creating of the tar file:
>
>-the .cvsignore file is ignored in the tar file (it has user read access
>like all the other files in my project directory).
>-however all the other '.xxxx' (hidden files in linux) are tarred just
>fine (to despite a possible idea of being a hidden file).
>
>Why is that the .cvsignore is the only file missed in the tar? 
>(this happens also with any .cvsignore file inside of my sub-directories
>tree)
>
>thanks.
>
>regards,
>Pedro Salazar.
>  
>


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