From: itsme213 <itsme213@...>
Date: 2004-12-22T08:12:01+09:00
Subject: Re: FileUtils.cp_r - how to prune

Ok, this was not as messy or as complicated as I thought ... once I figured
out how to avoid getting into absolute pathnames for Find.find.

I did:
Dir.chdir(an_absolute_path) do # block executed with process directory set
    Find.find(".") do |f|    # now I can work with relative paths
        Find.prune if f =~ /.svn/
        target = File.join(target_dir, f) # easy with relative paths
        # either FileUtils.mkdir(target) or FileUtils.cp(f,target)
    end
end

Thanks for the suggestions.

"Andrew Johnson" <ajohnson@cpan.org> wrote in message
news:tkixd.524094$Pl.259735@pd7tw1no...
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 04:35:26 GMT, itsme213 <itsme213@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks, I'll keep that as a backup. But I should have been more explicit
....
> >
> >> > I am doing
> >> >     FileUtils.cp_r( "source/.",  "generated")
> >> > to copy a directory tree.
> >> >
> >> > How can I prune out any sub_tree with /.svn/ ?
> >
> > How can I prune out any sub_tree with /.svn/ in its path from even being
> > copied over in the first place?
>
> The easiest way is probably just to modify FileUtils.cp_r() to add an
> ":ignore => %r{}" option (and adjust fu_copy_dir() accordingly). A quick
> glance looks like only a handful of lines would be affected/added.
>
> andrew
>
> -- 
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