recursive commands?

[knubee]

> either edit .bzrignore or quote the pattern in the command

i spoke too soon. this works for some things, but if the files are already
versioned, bzr says:

 Warning: the following files are version controlled and match your 
 ignore pattern:

 [snip]

 These files will continue to be version controlled unless you 'bzr remove' them.

but if i try to remove them (using quoted pattern), i get the following:

 > bzr remove --keep '*.log'

   *.log is not versioned.

 > bzr remove '*.log'

   *.log does not exist.

any suggestions?