Getting ANT to scp only new/changed files
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I would like to optimize my scp deployment which currently copies all files to only copy files that have changed since the last build. I believe it should be possible with the current setup somehow, but I don't know how to do this.
I have the following:
Project/src/blah/blah/ <---- files I am editing (mostly PHP in this case, some static assets)
Project/build <------- I have a local build step that I use to copy the files to here
I have an scp task right now that copies all of Project/build out to a remote server when I need it.
Is it possible to somehow take advantage of this extra "build" directory to accomplish what I want -- meaning I only want to upload the "diff" between src/** and build/**. Is it possible to somehow retrieve this as a fileset in ANT and then scp that?
I do realize that what it means is that if I somehow delete/mess around with files on the server in between, the ANT script would not notice, but for me this is okay.
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