Re: [Monotone-devel] to be recursive or non-recursive that is the question

[hendrik]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:37:35AM -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:
> Derek Scherger <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > mtn add is non-recursive by default but allows for --recursive if you want
> > it.
> > mtn revert is recursive by default and doesn't allow for an obvious way of
> > being non-recursive (I believe --depth=N will stop the recursion at the
> > specified depth).
> 
> A general --[no-]* option mechanism would help here (just building
> motivation for this).

Perhaps revert should have no default.  You'd always have to explicitly 
specify --recursive or --nonrecursive or --norecursive.  Except maybe if 
there are no subdirectories so the difference is moot.

-- hendrik