Question

Ant by default excludes vssver.scc file from all filesets. This is very convenient.

But VSS2005 uses vssver2.scc file for the same purpose 🙁

Can I modify Ant’s default excludes somehow?
I do not like an idea to add

<exclude name="vssver*.scc"/>

to each fileset…

Answer 1

It’s right there in the documentation:

defaultexcludes indicates whether default excludes should be used or
not (yes | no); default excludes are used when omitted.

which links to

This is the default list; note that you can modify the list of default
excludes by using the defaultexcludes task.

which links to

Alters the default excludes for all subsequent processing in the
build, and prints out the current default excludes if desired.