How to checkout from SVN with an ANT task?
- by Josh
I'm interested in any way that I can create an Ant task to checkout files from SubVersion. I "just" want to do the checkout from the command line. I've been using Eclipse with Ant and SubVersion for a while now, but my Ant and SubVersion knowledge is somewhat lacking as I relied on Eclipse to wire it all together.
I've been looking at SvnAnt as one solution, which is part of Subclipse from Tigris at http://subclipse.tigris.org/svnant/svn.html. It may work fine, but all I get are NoClassDefFoundErrors. To the more experienced this probably looks like a simple Ant configuration problem, but I don't know about that. I copied the svnant.jar and svnclientadapter.jar into my Ant lib directory. Then I tried to run the following:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="blah">
<property environment="env"/>
<path id="svnant.classpath">
<pathelement location="${env.ANT_HOME}/lib"/>
<fileset dir="${env.ANT_HOME}/lib/">
<include name="svnant.jar"/>
</fileset>
</path>
<typedef resource="org/tigris/subversion/svnant/svnantlib.xml" classpathref="svnant.classpath" />
<target name="checkout">
<svn username="abc" password="123">
<checkout url="svn://blah/blah/trunk" destPath="workingcopy"/>
</svn>
</target>
</project>
To which I get the following response:
build.xml:17: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/tigris/subversion/javahl/SVNClientInterface
I am running SVN 1.7 and SvnAnt 1.3 on Windows XP 32-bit.
Thanks for any pointers!
