Not able to just deploy classes folder using Force Migration Tool

Question

I am trying to deploy just classes folder as I am not able to deploy entire src folder because of size issue as mentioned in this post

Here is the task I added in my build.xml:

<target name="deployClasses">
  <sf:deploy username="${SFDC.username}" password="${SFDC.password}" 
             sessionId="${SFDC.sessionId}" serverurl="${SFDC.serverurl}" 
             maxPoll="600" deployRoot="../src/classes" rollbackOnError="true" 
             allowMissingFiles="true" pollWaitMillis="30000"/>
</target>

and here is the log when I run ant deployClasses from command prompt:

john@john:~/mm_workspace/my_SFDC_Project/ant_deploy$ ant deployClasses 
Buildfile: /home/john/mm_workspace/my_SFDC_Project/ant_deploy/build.xml

    deployClasses:
    [sf:deploy] Request for a deploy submitted successfully.
    [sf:deploy] Request ID for the current deploy task: 0Af29000001K8MECA0
    [sf:deploy] Waiting for server to finish processing the request...
    [sf:deploy] Request Status: Pending
    [sf:deploy] Request Status: Succeeded
    [sf:deploy] *********** DEPLOYMENT SUCCEEDED ***********
    [sf:deploy] Finished request 0Af29000001K8MECA0 successfully.

    BUILD SUCCESSFUL
    Total time: 1 minute 28 seconds

Log shows everything deployed successfully but in the below screenshot it shows zero:

Also here is my package.xml contents present inside the src/classes directory:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>*</members>
        <name>ApexClass</name>
    </types>
    <version>31.0</version>
</Package>

EDIT:

Here is my directory structure as requested in the comments:

john@john:~/mm_workspace/my_SFDC_Project$ tree -R
.
├── ant_deploy
│   ├── build.properties
│   ├── build.xml
├── salesforce.schema
└── src
    ├── classes
    │   ├── some_class.cls
    │   ├── some_class.cls-meta.xml
    │   └── package.xml
    ├── objects
    ├── package.xml
    └── pages
        ├── some_page.page
        └── some_page.page-meta.xml

Could somebody please help me on what is wrong I am doing here? Thanks!

Answer 1

The ANT migration tool looks for .cls files inside of the classes directory directly below the directory specified in deployRoot. The way your target is set is making ANT look in ../src/classes/classes/ for .cls files.

You'll want to create an ANT copy task to copy your classes folder and package.xml to a different parent directory, and set the deployRoot to that parent directory.