On 2001-10-04 23:19:18 kfogel wrote:
>Kevin Pilch-Bisson <kevin@pilch-bisson.net> wrote nearly this:
>> add non-recursive switchable (becomes import??)
Peter.This may be a silly question, but what is the difference between add
and import?
>> The other issue is what behaviour does --non-recursive have. My idea
was t=
>> hat
>> if the target is '.' then is works on all files/dirs in the present dir.
If
>> the target is a non-'.' dir, then it will work exclusively on the dir.
>
>Something like that. A simpler way to say it might be:
>
> When a command is run non-recursively, each dir argument received
> is treated like this: the command is run on all the files in the
> dir, but not on subdirectories. File arguments are treated
> normally, of course.
>
>No need to distinguish between `.' and other dirs, they're all just
>dirs.
Good - it would be very unpleasant if "svn cmd ." and "svn cmd `pwd`"
behaved differently.
...
> A simple and consistent solution is to say that
>non-recursive means "ignore all directories other than the ones
>actually specified to the command". Easy to implement, too. :-)
>
>How does that sound?
That sounds a lot cleaner.
Peter.
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