On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:27:49PM +0200, Bruno Hertz wrote:
Hmm. Looking at common tools (like ls, chmod or whatever), restriction
to pwd is the default, and recursiveness must explicitly be requested,
like per '-R' option (OK, not possible with ls, of course). 'find' is
one of the notable
Nathaniel Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It actually had never occurred to me that one might expect giving a
directory to mean only the first level of stuff in that directory;
maybe we need a straw poll on what people's intuitions here are?
Who ever called 'ls' with a directory name as param
Bruno Hertz wrote:
Who ever called 'ls' with a directory name as param might think
different. Shell expansion is non recursive either. Actually, most
commands work non recursive without explicit request. Take rm -rf as
another example.
conversely, cvs diff dir etc. do act recursively, iirc,
Derek Scherger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
certainly, given the same args and possibly --local option, commit,
status, diff, revert should all act on the same things!
Sure. Without path spec on the entire working copy, else on the
path(s) specified.
And, as said, after taking the pain of
Nathaniel Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 07:37:36PM +0200, Bruno Hertz wrote:
while the user interface might currently not be top priority, are
there still any plans to allow for non-recursive path restrictions,
e.g. for list various ?
Hardest part is coming up with
