On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:58 AM, vijay <vi...@collab.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on patch to add '--include-externals' option to 'svn list' > [Issue #4225]. > > Let me try to answer few questions in the issue comment [1]. > Please correct me if I am wrong. > > 1. What happens with externals inside of externals? Are they also listed? > Does > recursion stop at some point? > > No. Externals inside of externals are not listed which is similar in > behavior > like other commands checkout, export. My code will read all the externals > set > under given path or URL and call svn_client_list() recursively for all > external URLs, explicitly turning off the flag 'include_externals'.
Does it make more sense to make --include-externals behave something more like --depth rather than a simple boolean? E.G. it'd behave like so: No option: current behavior externals are not processed. --include-externals or --include-externals=infinity : Fully recursive. --include-externals=immediate : Only externals defined in the repo for the target.
