Major Description
See the thread "recursive/nonrecursive" on the dev list.
Basically, some commands might be improved if they had a way to
indicate depth, that is, "depth 0" means operate on this directory,
"depth 1" means operate on this directory and its non-descendable
children (i.e., non-dirs, though maybe in some contexts such as
propset it would operate on child subdirectories too, just not descend
inside them), and "depth 2" means fully recursive.
We should collect a few scenarios in which this ability to indicate
depth might be useful, and then decide on the exact interface. Here
is one example from Nuutti Kotivuori:
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From: Nuutti Kotivuori <naked@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: recursive/nonrecursive
To: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net>
Cc: SVN Dev List <dev@subversion.tigris.org>
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 22:39:31 +0300
I must say that this has bothered me in other places as well. It's the
same thing that the ls -d switch is made for.
My personal pet peeve is 'svn st -vnu .' It shows me all the entries
in the current directory - where as I would want it to show only '.' -
like it does when I say 'svn st -vnu README'.
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/sparse-directories.txt
