Operating in Multiple Repository within ant

Ant script can not change its base directory after it is invoked, for that reason if you are handling two repositories under same directory it would be wise to write a secondary wrapper script.

Ant task with wildcard expansion for svn.

Ant is a popular tool among Java developers but one can use it for some other generic tasks. For example using svn as a task inside an ant script is provided by a library. However wildcard expansion won't work under this task. One way to over come this to use an exec task as follows (in windowz):

<exec executable="cmd.exe">
  <arg line=" /C svn --force delete pathtofiles\*.dat
             --username=username --password=password">
  </arg>
</exec>