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Ant Subversion Task, Part 2

Commits now working

I have an updated version of the Ant Subversion task that supports commits. Note to self: look at the DAV protocol spec to find out more about what is actually going on under the hood. The one snag I hit is that you won’t always have a valid Repository instance (e.g. when committing), as the SVN root is read from the administrative files, so you need to handle the credential passing explicitly for this case. Here’s a sample build.xml showing what works now:

<?xml version=”1.0″?>

<project name=”svn” default=”main” basedir=”.”>

<property name=”foo” value=”bar”/>

<target name=”main”>
<taskdef name=”svn” classname=”uk.co.researchkitchen.javasvn.ant.SvnTask” />
<delete dir=”c:/temp/sample” failonerror=”false”/>

<svn command=”checkout” svnRoot=”http://localhost/svn/sample/trunk” dest=”c:/temp/sample” revision=”10″ verbose=”true”/>

<svn command=”update” dest=”c:/temp/sample” verbose=”true”/>

<svn command=”commit” dest=”c:/temp/sample” verbose=”true” message=”hello ${foo}”/>

</target>
</project>

The code is here: SvnTask.java

I must say, I’m really impressed with the JavaSVN library – it looks pretty powerful.

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