help: eliminate duplicate text for revset string patterns
There's no reason to duplicate this so many times, and it's likely an instance
will be missed if support for a new pattern is added and documented. The
stringmatcher is mostly used by revsets, though it is also used for the 'tag'
related templates, and namespace filtering in the journal extension. So maybe
there's a better place to document it. `hg help patterns` seems inappropriate,
because that is all file pattern matching.
While here, indicate how to perform case insensitive regex searches.
$ cat <<EOF >> $HGRCPATH
> [extensions]
> purge =
> EOF
$ hg init test
$ cd test
$ echo a > changed
$ echo a > removed
$ echo a > source
$ hg ci -Am addfiles
adding changed
adding removed
adding source
$ echo a >> changed
$ echo a > added
$ hg add added
$ hg rm removed
$ hg cp source copied
$ hg diff --git > ../unknown.diff
Test adding on top of an unknown file
$ hg up -qC 0
$ hg purge
$ echo a > added
$ hg import --no-commit ../unknown.diff
applying ../unknown.diff
file added already exists
1 out of 1 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file added.rej
abort: patch failed to apply
[255]
Test modifying an unknown file
$ hg revert -aq
$ hg purge
$ hg rm changed
$ hg ci -m removechanged
$ echo a > changed
$ hg import --no-commit ../unknown.diff
applying ../unknown.diff
abort: cannot patch changed: file is not tracked
[255]
Test removing an unknown file
$ hg up -qC 0
$ hg purge
$ hg rm removed
$ hg ci -m removeremoved
created new head
$ echo a > removed
$ hg import --no-commit ../unknown.diff
applying ../unknown.diff
abort: cannot patch removed: file is not tracked
[255]
Test copying onto an unknown file
$ hg up -qC 0
$ hg purge
$ echo a > copied
$ hg import --no-commit ../unknown.diff
applying ../unknown.diff
abort: cannot create copied: destination already exists
[255]
$ cd ..