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When a project gets complicated then so to can the build.xml file associated with it. You might find it necessary to have multiple different filesets, each of which do something different, but all of which have the same core files that they use. Multiple filesets are useful if you want to create a version of your project with all of the testing files in place so that it can be tested by external developers.

One of the main reasons to use Phing is to create a copy of your project in another directory that you can then use as your distribution copy. Your working directory might contain lots of testing code that is not needed in the final build.

To copy a file from one directory to another using Phing you need to use the copy element. Here is a simple example where a single file is copied from one directory to another.