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-Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or more files
-at a time.
-
-By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended glob
-patterns.
-
-Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly.
-
-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.
-
-To use an extended glob, start a name with ``glob:``. Globs are rooted
-at the current directory; a glob such as ``*.c`` will only match files
-in the current directory ending with ``.c``.
-
-The supported glob syntax extensions are ``**`` to match any string
-across path separators and ``{a,b}`` to mean "a or b".
-
-To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with ``re:``.
-Regexp pattern matching is anchored at the root of the repository.
-
-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"
-
-Glob examples::
-
- glob:*.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory
- *.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory
- **.c any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of the
- current directory including itself.
- foo/*.c any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo
- foo/**.c any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of foo
- including itself.
-
-Regexp examples::
-
- re:.*\.c$ any name ending in ".c", anywhere in the repository