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Jan > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Dick, Brian E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 15. Dezember 2004 13:36 > An: Ant Users List > Betreff: RE: Comparing Files on Two Servers > > 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] >