My goal is to copy a directory tree, and preserve the last-modified-time of all the files and *directories* in the copied tree.
Through my research through the Ant manual, mailing lists, and bug database I find no mention of this being possible, or reported previously as an enhancement request. My workaround is to <exec/> "cp -pR". This works fine on our Unix flavors, but does not work on Windows. I glanced at the code for org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils and ResourceUtils, from the source it doesn't look like the preservelastmodified attribute was ever intended to apply to directories. Can someone from ant-dev offer an opinion on why directories aren't (shouldn't be?) included in the semantics for preserving modification times? Does this seems like a reasonable enhancement request? Can anyone suggest a Windows workaround? Thanks. --Cyril
