Earlier to deploy my dot-net project into my remote server I was using copy command in a nant build configuration file. The command is shown below.
<target name="Deploy">
<copy todir="${path.to.the.directory}" overwrite="true">
<fileset basedir="${Bin.Path}">
<include name="*.*" />
</fileset>
</copy>
</target>
Now as my project grew I got two new folders inside my $[bin.path] folder and now I cannot use copy command to copy my executable to the output folder.
What can I do?
After searching I found out I can use XCopy. But I am not getting how to integrate that into my build script similar to the one shown above.
I wonder why you came to a conclusion that you can't use <copy>
task.
If you need to include the subfolders into the copy set, change your NAnt script to this:
<target name="Deploy">
<copy todir="${path.to.the.directory}" overwrite="true">
<fileset basedir="${Bin.Path}">
<include name="**\*.*" />
</fileset>
</copy>
</target>
If you don't want to keep the folder structure in the target directory, you can use flatten
attribute of <copy>
task:
<target name="Deploy">
<copy todir="${path.to.the.directory}" overwrite="true" flatten="true">
<fileset basedir="${Bin.Path}">
<include name="**\*.*" />
</fileset>
</copy>
</target>
Hope this helps.