comparison mercurial/help/patterns.txt @ 16504:e3c7ca15cde2 stable

doc: add note about pattern rooted/unrooted cases to "hgignore" and "patterns" each help topics describe that patterns are "not rooted" and "rooted" in themselves, but not describe about each other. so, this may causes misunderstanding about "rooted"-ness of patterns.
author FUJIWARA Katsunori <foozy@lares.dti.ne.jp>
date Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:38:22 +0900
parents 6ab8b17adc03
children c7c9473fcc46
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4 By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended glob 4 By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended glob
5 patterns. 5 patterns.
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7 Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly. 7 Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly.
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9 .. note::
10 Patterns specified in ``.hgignore`` are not rooted. Please see
11 :hg:`help hgignore` for details.
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9 To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start it with 13 To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start it with
10 ``path:``. These path names must completely match starting at the 14 ``path:``. These path names must completely match starting at the
11 current repository root. 15 current repository root.
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