--recursive vs --recurse option

Philippe Lhoste PhiLho at GMX.net
Wed Mar 24 09:14:40 GMT 2010


On 23/03/2010 02:07, Martin Pool wrote:
> 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.

I am not that proficient in English, but my gut feeling tells me it should be
--not-recursive instead of --no-recursive
Are my guts wrong? ;-)

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