mercurial/help/filesets.txt

setup: avoid linker warnings on Windows about multiple export specifications

The PyMODINIT_FUNC macro contains __declspec(dllexport), and then the build
process adds an "/EXPORT func" to the command line.  The 64-bit linker flags
this [1].

Everything except zstd.c and bser.c are covered by redefining the macro in
util.h [2].  These modules aren't built with util.h in the #include path, so the
redefining hack would have to be open coded two more times.

After seeing that extra_linker_flags didn't work, I couldn't find anything
authoritative indicating why, though I did see an offhand comment on SO that
CFLAGS is also ignored on Windows.  I also don't fully understand the
interaction between msvccompiler and msvc9compiler- I first subclassed the
latter, but it isn't used when building with VS2008.

I know the camelcase naming isn't the standard, but the HackedMingw32CCompiler
class above it was introduced 5 years ago (and I think the current style was
in place by then), so I assume that there's some reason for it.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/835326/you-receive-an-lnk4197-error-in-the-64-bit-version-of-the-visual-c-compiler
[2] https://bugs.python.org/issue9709#msg120859

Mercurial supports a functional language for selecting a set of
files.

Like other file patterns, this pattern type is indicated by a prefix,
'set:'. The language supports a number of predicates which are joined
by infix operators. Parenthesis can be used for grouping.

Identifiers such as filenames or patterns must be quoted with single
or double quotes if they contain characters outside of
``[.*{}[]?/\_a-zA-Z0-9\x80-\xff]`` or if they match one of the
predefined predicates. This generally applies to file patterns other
than globs and arguments for predicates.

Special characters can be used in quoted identifiers by escaping them,
e.g., ``\n`` is interpreted as a newline. To prevent them from being
interpreted, strings can be prefixed with ``r``, e.g. ``r'...'``.

See also :hg:`help patterns`.

Operators
=========

There is a single prefix operator:

``not x``
  Files not in x. Short form is ``! x``.

These are the supported infix operators:

``x and y``
  The intersection of files in x and y. Short form is ``x & y``.

``x or y``
  The union of files in x and y. There are two alternative short
  forms: ``x | y`` and ``x + y``.

``x - y``
  Files in x but not in y.

Predicates
==========

The following predicates are supported:

.. predicatesmarker

Examples
========

Some sample queries:

- Show status of files that appear to be binary in the working directory::

    hg status -A "set:binary()"

- Forget files that are in .hgignore but are already tracked::

    hg forget "set:hgignore() and not ignored()"

- Find text files that contain a string::

    hg files "set:grep(magic) and not binary()"

- Find C files in a non-standard encoding::

    hg files "set:**.c and not encoding('UTF-8')"

- Revert copies of large binary files::

    hg revert "set:copied() and binary() and size('>1M')"

- Revert files that were added to the working directory::

    hg revert "set:revs('wdir()', added())"

- Remove files listed in foo.lst that contain the letter a or b::

    hg remove "set: 'listfile:foo.lst' and (**a* or **b*)"