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-rw-r--r--lib/puppet/type/file.rb19
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lib/puppet/type/file.rb b/lib/puppet/type/file.rb
index 79f4b81ab..630ebe5de 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/type/file.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/type/file.rb
@@ -123,15 +123,16 @@ Puppet::Type.newtype(:file) do
newparam(:recurse) do
desc "Whether and how deeply to do recursive
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]+ => Both, but limit recursion. Warning: this syntax
- is deprecated and has moved to recurselimit.
+
+ * `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]+$/)