dvc status -R does not work

[Wirg]

Bug Report

dvc status -R does not work.

This is probably just a doc issue :

• the option can be found here https://dvc.org/doc/command-reference/status
• but not in the dvc status --help

What is the proper equivalent to the -R ? Right now I am relying on the the terminal wildcards **/*dvc.

Please provide information about your setup

Output of dvc version:

$ dvc version
DVC version: 0.94.0
Python version: 3.6.9
Platform: Linux-5.3.0-53-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
Binary: False
Package: pip
Supported remotes: http, https, s3, ssh
Cache: reflink - not supported, hardlink - supported, symlink - supported
Filesystem type (cache directory): ('ext4', '/dev/nvme0n1p2')
Repo: dvc, git
Filesystem type (workspace): ('ext4', '/dev/nvme0n1p2')

[skshetry]

@Wirg, please can you show us dvc status -R --verbose <folder> that you are trying?
It will help us to know if any stage inside that folder were computed or not, similar to:

Computed stage: 'data/foo.dvc' md5: '1505491fb04120d56bc84064355b17e1'

Also, status won't list stages that are up-to-date.

[Wirg]

Hi @skshetry,

Thank you for your answer.

I don't think I can give you much details with verbose, the failure is during the command resolution.

$ dvc status -R --verbose .
ERROR: unrecognized arguments: -R
usage: dvc [-q | -v] [-h] [-V] COMMAND ...

Data Version Control
... rest of the help for dvc status ...

[efiop]

@Wirg Ah, ok, that makes sense now. -R was introduced https://github.com/iterative/dvc/pull/3726 after 0.94.0 and is only available in the pre-release version of dvc (use pip install --pre dvc to install it), feel free to upgrade and give it a try. There are no plans to backport it to 0.x right now.