I always took that to be a safety measure. Updating
won't necessarily destroy local changes you have made
to the working copy. This behavior (destruction of the
local changes), however, is exactly what reversion is
meant to do. While accidentally updating your working
copy recursively won't generally ruin your life, having
the same accident with reversion very well may.
-steve
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 2:06 PM
> To: Subversion mailing list
> Subject: why the inconsistency between some svn commands?
>
>
>
> not a big deal but i'm curious about the apparent inconsistencies
> between some svn commands, particularly WRT default arguments.
>
> say i want to update my working copy. i can just type:
>
> $ svn update
>
> by default, "update" uses a path argument of "." and works
> recursively. if you *don't* want recursive behaviour, you have to
> *explicitly* say so with "--non-recursive" or "-N".
>
> OTOH, "svn revert" appears to take exactly the opposite approach.
> you *need* to specify the path to work on (even if it's "."), and it
> is non-recursive by default, which you have to override with
> "--recursive". do i have this right?
>
> so if i did an update, regretted it and wanted to revert, i'd need
> to:
>
> $ svn update
> $ svn --recursive revert .
>
> which strikes me as non-intuitive. it seems that, for consistency,
> commands should try (as much as possible) to take the same approach
> to defaults. or am i misreading something?
>
> rday
>
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