Steps on how to setup and checkout SVN code using Ant
1. Create a folder
AntCheckout
2. Inside it create a folder
lib
3. Download the below list of jars and place them in the
lib folder
4. Inside
Ant folder create
build.properties file which should look like below:
svn.url=http://svn.test.com/svn/repos/myproject
svn.revision=HEAD
svn.uname=test
svn.password=test
svn.checkout.dir=myrepo
5. Update the property values accordingly with your SVN details.
6. Inside
Ant folder create
build.xml which should look like below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<project name="svncheckout" default="checkout">
<!-- Antcontrib path -->
<path id="antcontrib.path">
<pathelement path="lib/ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar" />
</path>
<taskdef classpathref="antcontrib.path" resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties"/>
<taskdef classpathref="antcontrib.path" resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml"/>
<!-- SVNANT path -->
<path id="svn.ant.classpath">
<fileset dir="lib">
<include name="**/*.jar"/>
</fileset>
</path>
<taskdef classpathref="svn.ant.classpath" resource="org/tigris/subversion/svnant/svnantlib.xml"/>
<!-- SVN Checkout -->
<svnSetting svnkit="true" javahl="false" id="svn.settings"/>
<target name="checkout" description="Pulls code from Subversion into the directory" depends="init">
<echo>SVN URL: ${svn.url}</echo>
<echo>Revision: ${svn.revision}</echo>
<echo>Target Dir: ${svn.checkout.dir}</echo>
<svn refid="svn.settings" username="${svn.uname}" password="${svn.password}" >
<checkout url="${svn.url}" destPath="${basedir}/${svn.checkout.dir}" revision="${svn.revision}"/>
</svn>
<!-- Remove unwanted .svn folders -->
<delete includeEmptyDirs="true">
<fileset dir="${svn.checkout.dir}" includes="**/.svn/" defaultexcludes="false"/>
</delete>
</target>
<!-- Clean folder before checkout -->
<target name="init">
<echo>Cleaning checkout folder: svn</echo>
<delete includeemptydirs="true">
<fileset dir="svn" includes="**/*"/>
</delete>
<mkdir dir="${svn.checkout.dir}"/>
</target>
</project>
<!-- Check if build.properties is available -->
<available file="build.properties" property="file.exists" value="true" />
<fail unless="file.exists" message="ERROR: Filename 'build.properties' does not exist." />
<property file="build.properties"/>
7. Save All
8. Open command-prompt/ putty and set your ANT HOME
9. Run command
ant checkout
10. The required artifacts will be checked-out in the
myrepo folder.
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