a single instance of Copy to be used more than one - like in ant -Dant.install=../dist/jakarta-ant dist install where the second time the dist target gets executed would throw an exception. You can see this in the logs of recent nightly builds of Ant. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@268084 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68master