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1 Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or more files |
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4 By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended glob |
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7 Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly. |
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11 Patterns specified in ``.hgignore`` are not rooted. |
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12 Please see :hg:`help hgignore` for details. |
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14 To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start it with |
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15 ``path:``. These path names must completely match starting at the |
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16 current repository root. |
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18 To use an extended glob, start a name with ``glob:``. Globs are rooted |
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19 at the current directory; a glob such as ``*.c`` will only match files |
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22 The supported glob syntax extensions are ``**`` to match any string |
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23 across path separators and ``{a,b}`` to mean "a or b". |
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25 To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with ``re:``. |
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26 Regexp pattern matching is anchored at the root of the repository. |
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28 To read name patterns from a file, use ``listfile:`` or ``listfile0:``. |
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29 The latter expects null delimited patterns while the former expects line |
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30 feeds. Each string read from the file is itself treated as a file |
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31 pattern. |
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33 All patterns, except for ``glob:`` specified in command line (not for |
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34 ``-I`` or ``-X`` options), can match also against directories: files |
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39 path:foo/bar a name bar in a directory named foo in the root |
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40 of the repository |
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41 path:path:name a file or directory named "path:name" |
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45 glob:*.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory |
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49 foo/*.c any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo |
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55 re:.*\.c$ any name ending in ".c", anywhere in the repository |
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59 listfile:list.txt read list from list.txt with one file pattern per line |
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60 listfile0:list.txt read list from list.txt with null byte delimiters |
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