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 6 Recursive behavior
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 Almost all of the subcommands of CVS work recursively when you specify
 a directory as an argument.  For instance, consider this directory
 structure:
 
            `$HOME'
              |
              +--tc
              |   |
                  +--CVS
                  |      (internal CVS files)
                  +--Makefile
                  +--backend.c
                  +--driver.c
                  +--frontend.c
                  +--parser.c
                  +--man
                  |    |
                  |    +--CVS
                  |    |  (internal CVS files)
                  |    +--tc.1
                  |
                  +--testing
                       |
                       +--CVS
                       |  (internal CVS files)
                       +--testpgm.t
                       +--test2.t
 
 If `tc' is the current working directory, the following is true:
 
    * `cvs update testing' is equivalent to
 
           cvs update testing/testpgm.t testing/test2.t
 
    * `cvs update testing man' updates all files in the subdirectories
 
    * `cvs update .' or just `cvs update' updates all files in the `tc'
      directory
 
    If no arguments are given to `update' it will update all files in
 the current working directory and all its subdirectories.  In other
 words, `.' is a default argument to `update'.  This is also true for
 most of the CVS subcommands, not only the `update' command.
 
    The recursive behavior of the CVS subcommands can be turned off with
 the `-l' option.  Conversely, the `-R' option can be used to force
 recursion if `-l' is specified in `~/.cvsrc' ( ~/.cvsrc).
 
      $ cvs update -l         # Don't update files in subdirectories
 
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