comparison mercurial/help/patterns.txt @ 20290:50db996bccaf

doc: add description about pattern matching against directories

Before this patch, there is no explicit description about pattern
matching against directories, even though users may understand it from
"plain examples" in "hg help patterns".

This patch adds description about pattern matching against
directories.

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To read name patterns from a file, use ``listfile:`` or ``listfile0:``.
The latter expects null delimited patterns while the former expects line
feeds. Each string read from the file is itself treated as a file
pattern.

Plain examples::

  path:foo/bar   a name bar in a directory named foo in the root
                 of the repository
  path:path:name a file or directory named "path:name"

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To read name patterns from a file, use ``listfile:`` or ``listfile0:``.
The latter expects null delimited patterns while the former expects line
feeds. Each string read from the file is itself treated as a file
pattern.

All patterns, except for ``glob:`` specified in command line (not for
``-I`` or ``-X`` options) or ``.hgignore`` file, can match also
against directories: files under matched directories are treated as
matched.

Plain examples::

  path:foo/bar   a name bar in a directory named foo in the root
                 of the repository
  path:path:name a file or directory named "path:name"