Mercurial > hg-stable
changeset 48558:823e906d879d
help: properly document the default pattern
The default isn't to glob. It's relpath, which does no globbing at
all. Thus most commands and options like -X/-I and hg files require
`glob:` in front of them to actually do any globbing.
I think long ago the default was to glob, but that hasn't been true
for a long time.
| author | Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:20:32 -0500 |
| parents | 791f5d5f7a96 |
| children | 6bd42f9bc97e |
| files | mercurial/helptext/patterns.txt |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/mercurial/helptext/patterns.txt Fri Dec 10 16:25:02 2021 +0100 +++ b/mercurial/helptext/patterns.txt Fri Feb 15 17:20:32 2019 -0500 @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ 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 verbatim without pattern +matching, relative to the current working directory. Note that your +system shell might perform pattern matching of its own before passing +filenames into Mercurial. Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly.