# HG changeset patch
# User Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
# Date 1299288072 21600
# Node ID 4ec34de8bbb1e58eca9c52e141c212d58bad9ace
# Parent  67fbe566eff1c991921d66f836b73bd0549620a3
match: ignore "" patterns

The following command would visit every changeset in repo/ rather than
the last 10:

hg log -l 10 repo/

diff -r 67fbe566eff1 -r 4ec34de8bbb1 mercurial/cmdutil.py
--- a/mercurial/cmdutil.py	Fri Mar 04 14:00:49 2011 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/cmdutil.py	Fri Mar 04 19:21:12 2011 -0600
@@ -261,6 +261,8 @@
     return ret
 
 def match(repo, pats=[], opts={}, globbed=False, default='relpath'):
+    if pats == ("",):
+        pats = []
     if not globbed and default == 'relpath':
         pats = expandpats(pats or [])
     m = matchmod.match(repo.root, repo.getcwd(), pats,