No, but if you hum a few bars I can sing along. :) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 2:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: Comparing Files on Two Servers
Hhmmm - do you know the modified selector? Jan > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Brent Bain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet am: Dienstag, 14. Dezember 2004 22:08 > An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Betreff: Comparing Files on Two Servers > > Hello: > > I'm hoping to save some time during deployments by comparing > a local zip > file against a remote server's zip file. My first thought > was to use the > checksum task, but the timestamps are deffinately going to be > different. > The basic idea is this: > Perform a local build and zip up the files. > Compare the local zip file against a remote zip file > If it's different then push the new zip file and extract > on the remote > machine. > If it's not different, don't do anything. > > I tried this with the checksum task originally. I would > generate a file > that gets pushed to the remote machine at the same time I > push the zip file > if things were different. Then I can just grab the checksum > file from the > remote machine and compare it against whats newly built/zipped. > > In theory the byte size could be the same (a boolean gets > changed from 0 to > 1 in a prop file for example). > > So is this hopeless? I'm looking at saving 2-3hrs over the > course of a day > if I can somehow detect that there were indeed changes. > My other thought was to parse the VSS history to see if there > are any files > that have changed -- but again -- that seems slower then just > a compare of > the files. > > Needless to say, simply comparing the date (OutOfDate task or > UpToDate task) > won't work since the zip file will be newly made and the same > file on the > remote machine might be several days/weeks old. My other > challenge is that > I only have SSH and FTP access to the remote machine... > > If someone else has run into this or if anyone else has some > tips that I'm > just overlooking I would greatly appreciate it!! > In advance, many thanks!!! > Brent > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
