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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/puppet/type/file.rb | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/puppet/type/file.rb b/lib/puppet/type/file.rb index e1a4ecbb9..630ebe5de 100644 --- a/lib/puppet/type/file.rb +++ b/lib/puppet/type/file.rb @@ -122,7 +122,18 @@ Puppet::Type.newtype(:file) do newparam(:recurse) do desc "Whether and how deeply to do recursive - management." + management. Options are: + + * `inf,true` --- Regular style recursion on both remote and local + directory structure. + * `remote` --- Descends recursively into the remote directory + but not the local directory. Allows copying of + a few files into a directory containing many + unmanaged files without scanning all the local files. + * `false` --- Default of no recursion. + * `[0-9]+` --- Same as true, but limit recursion. Warning: this syntax + has been deprecated in favor of the `recurselimit` attribute. + " newvalues(:true, :false, :inf, :remote, /^[0-9]+$/) |