Features

Русский: Основные функции MakeDirDiff

1. As mentioned on the introduction page, MakeDirDiff compares two directories and creates the third directory with the first directory structure, but will put new or updated files there only. MakeDirDiff is looking for an ‘old’ copy of data in the ‘previous’ directory.
2. MakeDirDiff is an Ant task. It can be used independently or in your build, backup or update Ant scripts.
3. MakeDirDiff is a command line tool. It doesn’t have an interface. It doesn’t bother you with questions and windows.
4. MakeDirDiff uses Ant FileSet element.

Using this element you can:

• define your 'original' directory as a set of different real directories,
• make MakeDirDiff process only some subdirectories from the original file set,
• include only some specific files into your processing;
• skip some files and/or directories from processing;

Please, look at the FileSet Manual page for more information.

5. By default MakeDirDiff copies all 'original' directory data into the 'previous' directory. You can turn off this feature using 'keepOldFiles' task attribute or java property.
6. Cleaning the 'result' directory. Since ver 1.4.

This feature can be turned on by adding "-cleanDestDir" parameter to a command line call or by adding "cleanDestDir = 'true'" attribute to an Ant task.