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 +:
> 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
>
> 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 .
>
> 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
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