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Re: Recipe for non recursive commit bug

From: Francois Beausoleil <fbos_at_users.sourceforge.net>
Date: 2003-08-26 15:27:18 CEST

Ok, in that case, should an issue be filed for the future ?

I will point to this thread and explain summarize things.

This would be a P5, post-1.0 issue.

Thanks !
François

On 25 Aug 2003 21:48:31 -0500, cmpilato@collab.net said:
> "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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