diff mercurial/help/patterns.txt @ 9999:f91e5630ce7e

setup: install translation files as package data

Remove the `install_package_data' subclass of `install_data' and use
the `package_data' functionality provided by distutils instead. As
package data must be located within the package directory, the data
files are now generated in the build directory.

To simplify the functionality of this change, the top-level `doc' and
`templates' directories have been moved into the `mercurial' package
directory.

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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