[Anthill] Avoiding complete checkout for each build

[Chad Woolley]

Hello,

I've been asked to consider the feasibility of making Anthill avoid a 
complete export of the source on every build, with the goal of speeding 
up the build.  In other words, leaving the source on the disk between 
builds and just doing a CVS update.

Has anyone attempted this?  Any brief ideas on how easy/difficult it 
would be?

Off the top of my head, it seems like it would be tricky when switching 
between HEAD/branches/versioned builds of the same project, because this 
would still require a full checkout.

My preferred approach would be to reduce the size of the codebase (by 
eliminating dependency jars from SCM via a tool like Maven).  This seems 
like the path of least resistance to me - any opinions on this?

Thanks,
Chad