ANT task to get list of files in change sets
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Is there an ANT task to get a list of files that are in the change sets accepted in a build repository workspace? After running teamAccept and teamFetch, I would like to get a list of files that have changed for this build. Our build scripts use this list to FTP artifacts to a build distribution server. We currently have this running for CVS builds and I would like to implement the same functionality for RTC builds so that I can seamlessly migrate projects from CVS to RTC.
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Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k●3●30●35)
| answered Aug 18 '10, 10:47 p.m.
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Have you considered running an RTC build engine on your build
distribution server, and use this to "pull" the changes to the build distribution server, rather than trying to "push" them to that server? This is likely to both be more reliable and more efficient. Cheers, Geoff On 8/18/2010 5:22 PM, wiegs wrote: Is there an ANT task to get a list of files that are in the change |
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Thanks for the quick response. A few follow-up questions/comments:
- The current scripts build all 50 EARs in the release and then look to see what changed, to determine what needs to be copied to the build dist server. Does the RTC Build engine identify which artifacts have been changed by a change_set? - Our build server is Windows while the build distribution server is AIX. I suspect I will need to write some additional scripts pull the artifacts to a Windows machine, then ftp them to AIX. My life would be easier (at least in the short term) if RTC had an ANT task to generate a list of files that changed in a group of change_sets. I see the list of files changed in the Eclipse GUI, but I don't know if that functionality has been exposed via ANT tasks. Does anyone have more information? Thanks Have you considered running an RTC build engine on your build Is there an ANT task to get a list of files that are in the change |
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Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k●3●30●35)
| answered Aug 19 '10, 9:50 p.m.
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER
Probably need a bit more info. For example:
When you say "which artifacts have been changed by a change set", are you talking about the EAR files, or about the source files that were used to build the EAR files? The change-sets will contain source files, unless you also check in the EAR files. What is stored on the build distribution server ... source files, EAR files, or both? What are the clients that use the artifacts from the build distribution server? Test machines? Other build machines? Cheers, Geoff On 8/19/2010 3:37 PM, wiegs wrote: Thanks for the quick response. A few follow-up questions/comments: gmclemmwrote: Have you considered running an RTC build engine on your build distribution server, and use this to "pull" the changes to the build distribution server, rather than trying to "push" them to that server? This is likely to both be more reliable and more efficient. Cheers, Geoff On 8/18/2010 5:22 PM, wiegs wrote: Is there an ANT task to get a list of files that are in the change sets accepted in a build repository workspace? After running teamAccept and teamFetch, I would like to get a list of files that have changed for this build. Our build scripts use this list to FTP artifacts to a build distribution server. We currently have this running for CVS builds and I would like to implement the same functionality for RTC builds so that I can seamlessly migrate projects from CVS to RTC. Thanks. |
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You can run JBE on AIX. See:
https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/BuildFAQ#OtherPlatforms If the build definition is configured for Jazz Source Control, it then takes care of doing the accept/fetch before invoking the main part of the build (e.g. Ant or command line). When doing the load, it only reloads those files that have been changed/added. For more details, see: https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/BuildFAQ#How_should_my_source_code_be_loa If you really are constrained to use the Ant tasks instead of JBE, then you can get a list of the change sets by specifying changeSetFile="changes.txt" in the teamAccept task invocation. The file format is: 1st line: workspace item id remaining lines: change set item id And it's possible to list the files in the change sets using the SCM CLI. See: https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/BuildFAQ#ScmCli However, the JBE approach would be -much- simpler. Regards, Nick |
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See also the support we're adding in 3.0 for a generateChangeLog Ant task:
https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/BuildFAQ#ChangeLog |
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