Gradle Copy Task: How to overwrite existing files?

Question

The Copy api doesn't mention a flag/property that can be set. So what's the default action and how can one modify it?

According to this,

As of Gradle 0.9.1, the Copy task always overwrites files. The other strategies are not supported yet.

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 07 '12 at 17:32

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As the issue text says, the Copy task overwrites files, and other strategies aren't currently supported. If that's not appropriate in your case, you can always fall back to the Ant task.

answered Sep 07 '12 at 17:32

Peter Niederwieser

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Thanks, I just wanted to hear it straight from the horses mouth! :D Any idea when those new strategies will be implemented (if at all)? – user1329572 Sep 07 '12 at 18:52
What's the situation now? – zwcloud Aug 10 '18 at 05:50

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

Check out DuplicatesStrategy http://www.gradle.org/docs/1.7-rc-1/release-notes#duplicate-file-handling-for-copy-and-archive-operations and http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/file/DuplicatesStrategy.html. Both should work for non-overwrite copying (while overwrite-copying is default).

duplicatesStrategy 'exclude'

Also check out Gradle Zip DuplicatesStrategy not working correctly for a possible bug that exists with nested "from"s.

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited May 14 '14 at 18:37

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I have the same problem when i use the Task Copy, gradle always performs up-to-date check which causes copying be skipped.

After read more on the gradle user manual, i find out that we can use project.copy() method instead of the task Copy. This method skip the up-to-date check, thus files will be always be copyed to destination.

task myCopy << {
    copy {
        from (yourSourceDir)
        into (yourDestDir)
    }
}

edited May 14 '14 at 18:37

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answered Apr 03 '14 at 07:32

Cao Wei

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This looks like trying to fix a problem that you created yourself (due to the `<<`). Look at the accepted answer of this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16358194/force-task-execution-in-gradle – cornuz May 28 '14 at 08:54

Gradle Copy Task: How to overwrite existing files?

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