Re: Possibly a bug in SVN 1.5.X

No.

There is nothing in the svn UI, or in any standard Unix tool, where "specify
a filename and a recursive flag" means to search for all files with that
name and act on them. If you want that, "find" works.

--dave

On Nov 22, 2008 1:11 PM, "Karl Heinz Marbaise" <khmarbaise_at_gmx.de> wrote:

Hi,

> > I think the definition of -R is that it will "recurse into >
subdirectories of the *target*".
Based on this explanation it makes sense...

> In your case, the target was > 'porn.xml',
It was "pom.xml" instead ;-)

> which is not a recursable target. Running 'svn revert -R' > or 'svn ls
-R' is operating on the ...
Hm...

The following two commands will result in recursing into the
subdirectories....
> svn propget "svn:keywords" -R
> svn proplist -R
so these two commands are working with the implicit target '.' as well....

on the other side:
>svn ps "svn:ignore" "test" . -R
will do an recursive setting of the (directory-)property in all
subdirectories.

So in other words (svn ps "property" "value" filename -R) is desired not to
go throught the subdirectories, but I would suggest to change the svn
propset command to my suggested one...cause it would make thinks more
simpler...

So my suggestion is the following:

svn ps "property" "value" pom.xml (Only in current directory)
svn ps "property" "value" pom.xml -R (in all subdirectories)
svn ps "property" "value" *.xml (only in current directory)
svn ps "property" "value" *.xml -R (in all subdirectories)

The supplemental suggestion will to change the help messages and the SVN
Book as well to make that point more clear...

Kind regards Karl Heinz Marbaise -- SoftwareEntwicklung Beratung Schulung
 Tel.: +49 (0) 2405 /...

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