usetimestamp has no effect when using ant GET task?

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I am trying a GET from ant but the problem if I invoke it twice, the file is downloaded twice, it should download only once because I have set the usetimestamp to true, what could be the issue?

This is the ant get command I am using:

<get src="..." dest="..."  verbose="true" usetimestamp="true" />

This is part of the log that I got:

[get] last modified = Wed May 17 10:51:19 EEST 2017

Ant should have logged a line with "local file date" as well. What does it say? — Chad Nouis, May 18 '17 at 13:44
I didn't get any log that provides the local file date, should I send any additional parameter? — Wael, May 18 '17 at 14:27
Is the value passed to the `dest` attribute different every time `` runs? — Chad Nouis, May 18 '17 at 15:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 18 '17 at 16:04

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sorry all I found the solution to my issue, the problem is that I had another line of code that is deleting the directory before calling the ant GET. Once I removed this line of code, the usetimestamp flag worked flawlessly.

answered May 18 '17 at 16:04

Wael

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