[REVIEW] Chapter 9 : --recursive Option

[C. Michael Pilato]

Karl Heinz Marbaise wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've thought a little bit about the "-R [--recursive]" option.
> 
> If the above option will be left in the commands, i think it is needed
> to mention them in all areas for the particular commands...
> 
> svn revert -R
> 
> is much shorter than "svn revert --depth=infinity"...
> 
> I would appreciate to have the "-R" shortage for command like svn revert...

Yes, the community decided *not* to deprecate -R for exactly this reason -- 
it's way easier to type "-R" than "--depth infinity".  I'll re-add -R to the 
reference descriptions of the 10 subcommands which accept it.

$ for i in `svn help | grep '^   [a-z]' | cut -f 4 -d ' '`; do \
     svn help ${i} | grep '\-\-recursive' > /dev/null && echo ${i}; \
     done
changelist
info
list
propdel
propget
proplist
propset
resolve
resolved
revert
$

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