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Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 06:07:13 -0500
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Subject: Re: Behavior of --copy-from
From: Raymond Camden <raymondcamden@gmail.com>
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No, what seems to happen to me is:

If I copy-from a directory that has a www folder in it, then it is
treated as the *root* of the new project and a proper Cordova folder
is not created.

If I copy-from a dir that does NOT have a www folder in it, it is
treated as the www folder of a new project.

Nope, I lie. Ok, so this is weirder than I imagined.

I made a new folder called "testwithwww". It has a file called
something.txt and a folder called www with an index.html.

I sourced a new project with it. My www folder copied fine, but
something.txt was completely ignored. It did, however, make a proper
Cordova project.

So this is a bit different from what I saw earlier where my first test
created something that wasn't a project, but it definitely failed to
copy a file over.


On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 2:18 AM, Dmitry Blotsky <dblotsky@microsoft.com> wr=
ote:
> Hi Raymond,
>
> The semantics of =E2=80=9C--copy-from=E2=80=9D are: copy the passed path =
in place of the new project's =E2=80=9Cwww=E2=80=9D directory, which =E2=80=
=9Ccordova create=E2=80=9D seems to obey. Is that not what happened in your=
 case? However, the failure to copy over paths that start with =E2=80=9C.=
=E2=80=9D looks like a bug to me. Unless someone says otherwise, feel total=
ly free file a bug in JIRA.
>
> Kindly,
> Dmitry
>
> On May 17, 2015, at 7:56 AM, Raymond Camden <raymondcamden@gmail.com<mail=
to:raymondcamden@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Well shoot - as a follow up - if I make a new Cordova project, lets
> call it testsource2, and then copy .settings to it, and then follow up
> by making a new project that uses copy-from pointing to testsource2,
> the CLI isn't copying the .settings directory. That is a bug for sure,
> right?
>
> On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Raymond Camden <raymondcamden@gmail.com<=
mailto:raymondcamden@gmail.com>> wrote:
> I thought I remember seeing a thread on this, but GMail is being a bit
> cranky about how I search today.
>
> I had thought that if you used --copy-from and the directory you used
> included www itself, then the folders would be copied over to a new
> project and merged in with normal default items.
>
> I just tested with a folder that had 2 items: A .settings directory
> and a www directory. While the CLI reported no issues, it did not
> create a proper Cordova project. It literally just copied .settings
> and www, but didn't do anything else to create a proper Cordova
> project.
>
> So I'm guessing that the expectation is that if you do not use a
> folder meant to be www, then your source directory should contain
> everything required for a proper Cordova project. But that's not
> forward-proof though. Imagine if Cordova 6 changes the project
> structure a bit so that a Foo folder is required, then I wouldn't be
> able to use my source dir w/o changing it. (Which, ok, probably won't
> happen.)
>
> So is this expected? Is this ok with others? Should I file a ER
> perhaps to make --copy-from in this situation add the rest of the
> project assets?
>
> --
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=3D
> Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM
>
> Email : raymondcamden@gmail.com<mailto:raymondcamden@gmail.com>
> Blog : www.raymondcamden.com<http://www.raymondcamden.com>
> Twitter: raymondcamden
>
>
>
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=3D
> Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM
>
> Email : raymondcamden@gmail.com<mailto:raymondcamden@gmail.com>
> Blog : www.raymondcamden.com<http://www.raymondcamden.com/>
> Twitter: raymondcamden
>
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Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM

Email : raymondcamden@gmail.com
Blog : www.raymondcamden.com
Twitter: raymondcamden

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