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doc: add description about pattern matching against directories Before this patch, there is no explicit description about pattern matching against directories, even though users may understand it from "plain examples" in "hg help patterns". This patch adds description about pattern matching against directories.
author FUJIWARA Katsunori <foozy@lares.dti.ne.jp>
date Fri, 17 Jan 2014 23:55:11 +0900
parents 96be25f1da45
children 7d589d923b8a
files mercurial/help/patterns.txt
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/mercurial/help/patterns.txt	Fri Jan 17 23:55:11 2014 +0900
+++ b/mercurial/help/patterns.txt	Fri Jan 17 23:55:11 2014 +0900
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@
 feeds. Each string read from the file is itself treated as a file
 pattern.
 
+All patterns, except for ``glob:`` specified in command line (not for
+``-I`` or ``-X`` options) or ``.hgignore`` file, can match also
+against directories: files under matched directories are treated as
+matched.
+
 Plain examples::
 
   path:foo/bar   a name bar in a directory named foo in the root