--recursive vs --recurse option

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Wed Mar 24 12:23:27 GMT 2010


Stefan Monnier пишет:
>>> 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'd appreciate if you advertise just one standard but silently accept
> the other one as well, since other tools haven't adopted a standard, so
> my muscle memory tends to choose one at random.

For bzr you can just type the part of it: --recurs and it will be 
enough. (and even shorter down to --rec) :-)




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