This is really part of issue #781, but it's the part that might want to go into
1.0. Here is a repeat of my comments of Mon Dec 15 13:28:26 -0800 2003 from
that issue:
This is item #3 from Greg Hudson's list of API changes to solve for 1.0, in thread
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=dev&by=thread&from=139821
I expressed skepticism that we should tackle this before 1.0, because it might
involve a long discussion, and Greg responded in
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=52339
saying
I think we will find (either the hard way or the easy way)
that after 1.0, API changes have to be batched up and made
at rare intervals--like, every five years or so. We'll
need to develop ways for people to have old and new
versions of Subversion installed on the same system, and
we'll have to write special documentation to help people
transition to the new API. So, if we want to support new
features without a lot of pain, we either have to do it
without breaking backward compatibility (i.e. adding new
functions, but preserving old ones) or we have to
anticipate them now.
Discussion continues.
Task
Major
SVN-781 Some commands could use a --depth indicator option