mercurial/help/patterns.txt
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doc: fix mistake about matching against directories in "pattern.txt" This fixes mistake of documentation about matching against directories in "pattern.txt" introduced by 50db996bccaf. ".hgignore" treats specified "glob:" pattern as same as one specified for "-X" option: it can match against directories, too. For reference, extra regexp string appended to specified pattern for each types are listed below: see also "match.match()" and "match._regex()" for detail. ============= ========== =============== type cmdline -I/-X ============= ========== =============== glob/relglob '$' '(?:/|$)' path/relpath '(?:/|$)' '(?:/|$)' re/relre (none) (none) ============= ========== =============== Appending '$' means that the specified pattern should match against only files.
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Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or more files
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at a time.
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By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended glob
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patterns.
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Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly.
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.. note::
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  Patterns specified in ``.hgignore`` are not rooted.
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  Please see :hg:`help hgignore` for details.
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To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start it with
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``path:``. These path names must completely match starting at the
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current repository root.
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To use an extended glob, start a name with ``glob:``. Globs are rooted
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at the current directory; a glob such as ``*.c`` will only match files
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in the current directory ending with ``.c``.
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The supported glob syntax extensions are ``**`` to match any string
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across path separators and ``{a,b}`` to mean "a or b".
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To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with ``re:``.
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Regexp pattern matching is anchored at the root of the repository.
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To read name patterns from a file, use ``listfile:`` or ``listfile0:``.
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The latter expects null delimited patterns while the former expects line
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feeds. Each string read from the file is itself treated as a file
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pattern.
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All patterns, except for ``glob:`` specified in command line (not for
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``-I`` or ``-X`` options), can match also against directories: files
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under matched directories are treated as matched.
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Plain examples::
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  path:foo/bar   a name bar in a directory named foo in the root
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                 of the repository
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  path:path:name a file or directory named "path:name"
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Glob examples::
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  glob:*.c       any name ending in ".c" in the current directory
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  *.c            any name ending in ".c" in the current directory
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  **.c           any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of the
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                 current directory including itself.
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  foo/*.c        any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo
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  foo/**.c       any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of foo
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                 including itself.
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Regexp examples::
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  re:.*\.c$      any name ending in ".c", anywhere in the repository
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File examples::
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  listfile:list.txt  read list from list.txt with one file pattern per line
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  listfile0:list.txt read list from list.txt with null byte delimiters
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See also :hg:`help filesets`.