diff 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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--- a/mercurial/help/patterns.txt	Mon Apr 23 00:33:09 2012 +0900
+++ b/mercurial/help/patterns.txt	Mon Apr 23 00:38:22 2012 +0900
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
 
 Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly.
 
+.. note::
+  Patterns specified in ``.hgignore`` are not rooted. Please see
+  :hg:`help hgignore` for details.
+
 To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start it with
 ``path:``. These path names must completely match starting at the
 current repository root.