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help: un-indent help topics The help topics are reused in the HTML documentation, and there it looks odd that whole sections are indented. We now only indent it for output on the terminal.
author Martin Geisler <mg@lazybytes.net>
date Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:18:43 +0200
parents c904e76e3834
children 585d2ffe969b
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1 Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or more 1 Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or more files
2 files at a time. 2 at a time.
3 3
4 By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended 4 By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended glob
5 glob patterns. 5 patterns.
6 6
7 Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly. 7 Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly.
8 8
9 To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start it 9 To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start it with
10 with "path:". These path names must completely match starting at 10 "path:". These path names must completely match starting at the
11 the current repository root. 11 current repository root.
12 12
13 To use an extended glob, start a name with "glob:". Globs are 13 To use an extended glob, start a name with "glob:". Globs are rooted
14 rooted at the current directory; a glob such as "``*.c``" will 14 at the current directory; a glob such as "``*.c``" will only match
15 only match files in the current directory ending with ".c". 15 files in the current directory ending with ".c".
16 16
17 The supported glob syntax extensions are "``**``" to match any 17 The supported glob syntax extensions are "``**``" to match any string
18 string across path separators and "{a,b}" to mean "a or b". 18 across path separators and "{a,b}" to mean "a or b".
19 19
20 To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with "re:". 20 To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with "re:".
21 Regexp pattern matching is anchored at the root of the repository. 21 Regexp pattern matching is anchored at the root of the repository.
22 22
23 Plain examples:: 23 Plain examples::
24 24
25 path:foo/bar a name bar in a directory named foo in the root 25 path:foo/bar a name bar in a directory named foo in the root
26 of the repository 26 of the repository
27 path:path:name a file or directory named "path:name" 27 path:path:name a file or directory named "path:name"
28 28
29 Glob examples:: 29 Glob examples::
30 30
31 glob:*.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory 31 glob:*.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory
32 *.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory 32 *.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory
33 **.c any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of the 33 **.c any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of the
34 current directory including itself. 34 current directory including itself.
35 foo/*.c any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo 35 foo/*.c any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo
36 foo/**.c any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of foo 36 foo/**.c any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of foo
37 including itself. 37 including itself.
38 38
39 Regexp examples:: 39 Regexp examples::
40 40
41 re:.*\.c$ any name ending in ".c", anywhere in the repository 41 re:.*\.c$ any name ending in ".c", anywhere in the repository