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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon loresoft

Added RootDirectory option to Zip task

Open JasonPierce opened this issue 11 years ago • 3 comments

This allows users to specify a common directory for the archive.

JasonPierce avatar Jun 10 '13 11:06 JasonPierce

How is this different from WorkingDirectory?

pwelter34 avatar Nov 08 '13 10:11 pwelter34

This pull request adds a feature which lets you specify a root directory that you want the archived files to be placed within, inside the generated zip file.

Example

User has two files to archive:

<RootDir>C:\Foo</RootDir>
<MyFiles
  Include="$(RootDir)\Bar.txt;$(RootDir)\Baz.txt" />

Case 1: Without RootDirectory

<Zip
  ZipFileName="Qux.zip"
  Files="@(MyFiles)"
  WorkingDirectory="$(RootDir)"
  ZipLevel="9" />

Generated Zip File

  • Qux.zip
    • Bar.txt
    • Baz.txt

Case 2: With RootDirectory

<Zip
  ZipFileName="Qux.zip"
  Files="@(MyFiles)"
  WorkingDirectory="$(RootDir)"
  RootDirectory="MyCustomFolder"
  ZipLevel="9" />

Generated Zip File

  • Qux.zip
    • MyCustomFolder
      • Bar.txt
      • Baz.txt

JasonPierce avatar Nov 21 '14 20:11 JasonPierce

A better name for this option might be "ArchiveFolder" vs "RootDirectory", now that I think about it. What do you think?

JasonPierce avatar Dec 05 '14 00:12 JasonPierce