Re: 'svn revert' behavior

Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> writes:

> I'm confused about 'svn revert':
>
> bash-2.05a$ svn st
> M ./Jamfile
>
> bash-2.05a$ svn revert
> (Nothing reverted)
>
> bash-2.05a$ svn revert .
> (Nothing reverted)
>
> It looks like in order to revert all the files in the current directory, I
> should either list them all, or give '--recursive' option. Is this behaviour
> intentional, and if so, what is the rationale?

You are absolutely correct in your assumptions. And yes, that's
intentional. The rationale (as defined be me, the guy who coded
'revert'), is simple: don't make it easy for the user to blow away
all of her local mods!

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:37:01 2006