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annotate mercurial/help/filesets.txt @ 15662:06671371e634 stable
progress: check for ui.quiet and ui.debugflag before we write
ui.quiet and ui.debugflag are not initialized during uisetup and
reposetup. progressui is always initialized, therefore we have to check
during write() if ui.quiet is set or not.
author | David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> |
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date | Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:41:08 +0100 |
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14686 | 1 Mercurial supports a functional language for selecting a set of |
2 files. | |
3 | |
4 Like other file patterns, this pattern type is indicated by a prefix, | |
5 'set:'. The language supports a number of predicates which are joined | |
6 by infix operators. Parenthesis can be used for grouping. | |
7 | |
8 Identifiers such as filenames or patterns must be quoted with single | |
9 or double quotes if they contain characters outside of | |
10 ``[.*{}[]?/\_a-zA-Z0-9\x80-\xff]`` or if they match one of the | |
11 predefined predicates. This generally applies to file patterns other | |
12 than globs and arguments for predicates. | |
13 | |
14 Special characters can be used in quoted identifiers by escaping them, | |
15 e.g., ``\n`` is interpreted as a newline. To prevent them from being | |
16 interpreted, strings can be prefixed with ``r``, e.g. ``r'...'``. | |
17 | |
18 There is a single prefix operator: | |
19 | |
20 ``not x`` | |
21 Files not in x. Short form is ``! x``. | |
22 | |
23 These are the supported infix operators: | |
24 | |
25 ``x and y`` | |
26 The intersection of files in x and y. Short form is ``x & y``. | |
27 | |
28 ``x or y`` | |
29 The union of files in x and y. There are two alternative short | |
30 forms: ``x | y`` and ``x + y``. | |
31 | |
32 ``x - y`` | |
33 Files in x but not in y. | |
34 | |
35 The following predicates are supported: | |
36 | |
37 .. predicatesmarker | |
38 | |
39 Some sample queries: | |
40 | |
41 - Show status of files that appear to be binary in the working directory:: | |
42 | |
43 hg status -A "set:binary()" | |
44 | |
45 - Forget files that are in .hgignore but are already tracked:: | |
46 | |
47 hg forget "set:hgignore() and not ignored()" | |
48 | |
49 - Find text files that contain a string:: | |
50 | |
51 hg locate "set:grep(magic) and not binary()" | |
52 | |
53 - Find C files in a non-standard encoding:: | |
54 | |
55 hg locate "set:**.c and not encoding(ascii)" | |
56 | |
57 - Revert copies of large binary files:: | |
58 | |
59 hg revert "set:copied() and binary() and size('>1M')" | |
60 | |
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help: fileset foo.lst was named files.lst
Arne Babenhauserheide <bab@draketo.de>
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61 - Remove files listed in foo.lst that contain the letter a or b:: |
14686 | 62 |
63 hg remove "set: 'listfile:foo.lst' and (**a* or **b*)" | |
64 | |
65 See also :hg:`help patterns`. |