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?

Yes, it's one of the few commands that's not recursive by default,
intentionally. There could be a better usage hint in place of the
silence when nothing gets reverted, though; care to patch?

-Karl

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:37:01 2006