I think it's intentional. If we change the first command to have the semantics of the second command, wouldn't it mean that the second command is equivalent to 'svn revert -R ./'?
If yes, we can't change it --- rather bad compatibility surprised for everyone who's used to 'svn revert --cl foo -R ./'. Giulio Troccoli wrote on Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:33:54 +0000: > Hi, > > I have found an odd behaviour with the revert command. Maybe it's > intended, but I don't find it very intuitive. I'm using SVN 1.6.9. > > If I have a changelist and I want to revert all changes made in all > files in the changelist I would use the following > > svn revert --changelist <name> > > That doesn't work. Not only I have to add the --depth option, but > I also have to specify the PATH, so something like > > svn revert --depth infinity --changelist <name> . > > I don't think either are necessary though. The good thing about > changelist is that with one easy command you can work on many files at > ones, even if they are in different directories. With the above > command, you still can, but from the deepest common directory of all > the files in the changelist. > > The changelist has the full path of every file, so I would have though > that the first command I tried would be enough. > > What do you think? > > G > > > Linedata Limited Registered Office: 85 Gracechurch St., London, EC3V > 0AA Registered in England and Wales No 3475006 VAT Reg No 710 3140 03 > > > >
