From 2787a0ad848acff1932b9bd0fb337b7799be90de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Ruby <rubys@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:26:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] better backwards compatibility

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@267617 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/MatchingTask.java | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/MatchingTask.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/MatchingTask.java
index 5fe446d4f..88050ff0a 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/MatchingTask.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/MatchingTask.java
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ public abstract class MatchingTask extends Task {
         project.log("The items attribute is deprecated. " +
                     "Please use the includes attribute.",
                     Project.MSG_WARN);
-        if (itemString == null || itemString.equals("*")) {
+        if (itemString == null || itemString.equals("*") 
+				               || itemString.equals(".")) {
             createInclude().setName("**");
         } else {
             StringTokenizer tok = new StringTokenizer(itemString, ", ");