Re: Recipe for non recursive commit bug

"Francois Beausoleil" <fbos@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> Ok, I understand your explanations.
>
> But, as an SVN user, wouldn't "non-recursive" mean something like "commit
> whatever is at this depth, and nothing else beyond" ?

The terms "recursive" and "non-recursive" in subversion always refer
to a depth. In nearly all Subversion operations, "recursive" means
a depth of infinity, and "non-recursive" means a depth of 1. However,
'svn commit' differs from this description in that it assign a depth
of 0 to "non-recursive".

This inconsistency is not desired behavior -- it's just that getting
"non-recursive" to mean depth 1 for commits is a major, major hassle
(that's been attempted at least twice to my knowledge, both times
aborted after many many hours of failed attempts). And, it likely
turns out not to be the most important time-sink in which to spend our
days. :-)

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Received on Tue Aug 26 04:52:29 2003