Re: "svn add" acts non-recursively without -N given

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Molle Bestefich wrote:
> > "force operation to run" is like saying that "force" means "force"...
>
> The problem is that we have a bunch of global flags which can mean
> slightly different things when used with different subcommands. But
> the way our commandline client is designed... well, it only allows a
> single generic description of each global flag. If you'd like to
> redesign that bit of code, it would be nice to have context-specific
> descriptions of the flags. :-)

Point taken.

Another approach would be to cast a vote, eg. "remove the --force
option and change 'svn add' to just behave sanely as a default" :-),
which would be easier to implement.

(Not that the other thing is particularly hard, but I have a long todo list.)

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Received on Mon Feb 20 17:14:14 2006