The svn client 'svnkit' is not available

Question

I have been using svnant 1.3.0 to create tags from branches in my SVN repository. Now I have upgraded from SVN 1.6 to 1.7 and there is no released svnant binary that support

Answer 1

I would advise using the svnkit java classes directly instead of struggling with the svnant task. This approach, combined with a macrodef, will result in a similar but more reliable solution.

<project name="build" default="checkout" xmlns:ivy="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant">

    <!--
    ======
    Macros
    ======
    -->
    <macrodef name="svn-checkout">
        <attribute name="src"/>
        <attribute name="dest"/>
        <sequential>
            <mkdir dir="@{dest}"/>
            <java classname="org.tmatesoft.svn.cli.SVN" dir="@{dest}" fork="true" classpathref="build.path">
                <arg value="--non-interactive"/>
                <arg line="--username ${svn.user}"/>
                <arg line="--password ${svn.pass}"/>
                <arg value="checkout"/>
                <arg value="@{src}"/>
            </java>
        </sequential>
    </macrodef>

    <!--
    =======
    Targets
    =======
    -->
    <target name="resolve" description="Resolve 3rd party dependencies">
        <ivy:cachepath pathid="build.path">
            <dependency org="org.tmatesoft.svnkit" name="svnkit-cli" rev="1.7.8" conf="default"/>
        </ivy:cachepath>
    </target>

    <target name="checkout" depends="resolve" description="Pull code from SCM repository">
        <svn-checkout src="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk" dest="build/subversion"/>
    </target>

    <target name="clean" description="Cleanup build files">
        <delete dir="build"/>
    </target>

    <target name="clean-all" depends="clean" description="Cleanup and purge ivy cache">
        <ivy:cleancache/>
    </target>

</project>

Note:

• This example uses the ivy cachepath task to download the dependencies into a local classpath reference called "build.path".