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| author | Martin Geisler <mg@lazybytes.net> |
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| date | Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:18:43 +0200 |
| parents | c904e76e3834 |
| children | 585d2ffe969b |
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--- a/help/patterns.txt Sun Oct 04 09:59:13 2009 +0200 +++ b/help/patterns.txt Sun Oct 04 12:18:43 2009 +0200 @@ -1,41 +1,41 @@ - Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or more - files at a time. +Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or more files +at a time. - By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended - glob patterns. +By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended glob +patterns. - Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly. +Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly. - To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start it - with "path:". These path names must completely match starting at - the current repository root. +To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start it with +"path:". These path names must completely match starting at the +current repository root. - To use an extended glob, start a name with "glob:". Globs are - rooted at the current directory; a glob such as "``*.c``" will - only match files in the current directory ending with ".c". +To use an extended glob, start a name with "glob:". Globs are rooted +at the current directory; a glob such as "``*.c``" will only match +files in the current directory ending with ".c". - The supported glob syntax extensions are "``**``" to match any - string across path separators and "{a,b}" to mean "a or b". +The supported glob syntax extensions are "``**``" to match any string +across path separators and "{a,b}" to mean "a or b". - To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with "re:". - Regexp pattern matching is anchored at the root of the repository. +To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with "re:". +Regexp pattern matching is anchored at the root of the repository. - Plain examples:: +Plain examples:: - path:foo/bar a name bar in a directory named foo in the root - of the repository - path:path:name a file or directory named "path:name" + path:foo/bar a name bar in a directory named foo in the root + of the repository + path:path:name a file or directory named "path:name" - Glob examples:: +Glob examples:: - glob:*.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory - *.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory - **.c any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of the - current directory including itself. - foo/*.c any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo - foo/**.c any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of foo - including itself. + glob:*.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory + *.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory + **.c any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of the + current directory including itself. + foo/*.c any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo + foo/**.c any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of foo + including itself. - Regexp examples:: +Regexp examples:: - re:.*\.c$ any name ending in ".c", anywhere in the repository + re:.*\.c$ any name ending in ".c", anywhere in the repository