From 846faeb9f203559d989d0eb2725b97e412a77972 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:41:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] properly document <cvs>'s dest attribute

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@275282 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 docs/manual/CoreTasks/cvs.html                              | 5 ++++-
 src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/AbstractCvsTask.java | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/cvs.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/cvs.html
index 8612f0874..69d1921e9 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/cvs.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/cvs.html
@@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ from the command line in the target directory in which you are working.
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td valign="top">dest</td>
-    <td valign="top">the directory where the checked out files should be placed.</td>
+    <td valign="top">the directory where the checked out files should
+    be placed.  Note that this is different from CVS's -d command line
+    switch as Ant will never shorten pathnames to avoid empty
+    directories.</td>
     <td align="center" valign="top">No, default is project's basedir.</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/AbstractCvsTask.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/AbstractCvsTask.java
index c03868e33..ecd0745d8 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/AbstractCvsTask.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/AbstractCvsTask.java
@@ -571,6 +571,10 @@ public abstract class AbstractCvsTask extends Task {
     /**
      * The directory where the checked out files should be placed.
      *
+     * <p>Note that this is different from CVS's -d command line
+     * switch as Ant will never shorten pathnames to avoid empty
+     * directories.</p>
+     *
      * @param dest directory where the checked out files should be placed
      */
     public void setDest(File dest) {