mercurial/help/filesets.txt
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:41:21 -0700
changeset 37554 301a1d2e8016
parent 35741 73432eee0ac4
permissions -rw-r--r--
httppeer: don't accept very old media types (BC) Versions of Mercurial older than 1.0 emitted the text/plain and application/hg-changegroup media types in response to wire protocol commands. Way back in 8760d0c83b9b in 2005, the code validating these media types was added, presumably for backwards compatibility. 0b245edec124 a short time before that commit changed things from text/plain and application/hg-changegroup to application/mercurial-0.1 and application/hg-0.1. 8760d0c83b9b seemed to indicate ("for now") that the BC compatibility was temporary. But that code has lived until this day. It has been more than 10 years and nobody should be running pre 1.0 servers. Pretty much the only risk to this is if there's a server somewhere advertising the old media types or server software is interfering and not letting Mercurial send the proper Content-Type header. I think the chances are rare. The wire protocol docs were created (by me) from reading existing code. So the deletions don't constitute a spec change as much as reflecting the reality of how things have been for years. .. bc:: The HTTP client no longer accepts text/plain and application/hg-changegroup Content-Type values as a valid Mercurial command response. These should only be encountered on pre 1.0 Mercurial servers. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3239

Mercurial supports a functional language for selecting a set of
files.

Like other file patterns, this pattern type is indicated by a prefix,
'set:'. The language supports a number of predicates which are joined
by infix operators. Parenthesis can be used for grouping.

Identifiers such as filenames or patterns must be quoted with single
or double quotes if they contain characters outside of
``[.*{}[]?/\_a-zA-Z0-9\x80-\xff]`` or if they match one of the
predefined predicates. This generally applies to file patterns other
than globs and arguments for predicates. Pattern prefixes such as
``path:`` may be specified without quoting.

Special characters can be used in quoted identifiers by escaping them,
e.g., ``\n`` is interpreted as a newline. To prevent them from being
interpreted, strings can be prefixed with ``r``, e.g. ``r'...'``.

See also :hg:`help patterns`.

Operators
=========

There is a single prefix operator:

``not x``
  Files not in x. Short form is ``! x``.

These are the supported infix operators:

``x and y``
  The intersection of files in x and y. Short form is ``x & y``.

``x or y``
  The union of files in x and y. There are two alternative short
  forms: ``x | y`` and ``x + y``.

``x - y``
  Files in x but not in y.

Predicates
==========

The following predicates are supported:

.. predicatesmarker

Examples
========

Some sample queries:

- Show status of files that appear to be binary in the working directory::

    hg status -A "set:binary()"

- Forget files that are in .hgignore but are already tracked::

    hg forget "set:hgignore() and not ignored()"

- Find text files that contain a string::

    hg files "set:grep(magic) and not binary()"

- Find C files in a non-standard encoding::

    hg files "set:**.c and not encoding('UTF-8')"

- Revert copies of large binary files::

    hg revert "set:copied() and binary() and size('>1M')"

- Revert files that were added to the working directory::

    hg revert "set:revs('wdir()', added())"

- Remove files listed in foo.lst that contain the letter a or b::

    hg remove "set: listfile:foo.lst and (**a* or **b*)"