1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/puppet/type/file.rb b/lib/puppet/type/file.rb
index e1a4ecbb9..79f4b81ab 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/type/file.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/type/file.rb
@@ -122,7 +122,17 @@ 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]+    => Both, but limit recursion. Warning: this syntax
+                     is deprecated and has moved to recurselimit.
+    "
 
     newvalues(:true, :false, :inf, :remote, /^[0-9]+$/)