--recursive vs --recurse option

Martin Pool mbp at canonical.com
Tue Mar 23 01:07:43 GMT 2010


On 23 March 2010 11:52, Parth Malwankar <parth.malwankar at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a recommendation between
> 'recurse' vs 'recursive' option for bzr.
>
> Bug #491223: bzr rev ert needs --no-recurse
> ls has --recursive
> add has --no-recurse
> grep has --no-recursive/--recursive
>
> There may be other commands I am not aware of.
>
> --recurse/--no-recurse is shorter and easier to type but
> --recursive is more common is standard commands like
> grep .

imo we should standardize on --recursive.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>



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