# HG changeset patch # User Durham Goode # Date 1432158849 25200 # Node ID 7072b91ccd20da95798381fb2e53bb7d41b041c0 # Parent 19d0e5efa6cac77a6ccb6a67ce9f746a5c6fea20 help: add documentation on include: and subinclude: Adds some help text about the new include: and subinclude: match syntax. diff -r 19d0e5efa6ca -r 7072b91ccd20 mercurial/help/hgignore.txt --- a/mercurial/help/hgignore.txt Sat May 16 16:25:05 2015 -0700 +++ b/mercurial/help/hgignore.txt Wed May 20 14:54:09 2015 -0700 @@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ and a regexp pattern of the form ``\.c$`` will do the same. To root a regexp pattern, start it with ``^``. +Subdirectories can have their own .hgignore settings by adding +``subinclude:path/to/subdir/.hgignore`` to the root ``.hgignore``. See +:hg:`help patterns` for details on ``subinclude:`` and ``include:``. + .. note:: Patterns specified in other than ``.hgignore`` are always rooted. diff -r 19d0e5efa6ca -r 7072b91ccd20 mercurial/help/patterns.txt --- a/mercurial/help/patterns.txt Sat May 16 16:25:05 2015 -0700 +++ b/mercurial/help/patterns.txt Wed May 20 14:54:09 2015 -0700 @@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ feeds. Each string read from the file is itself treated as a file pattern. +To read a set of patterns from a file, use ``include:`` or ``subinclude:``. +``include:`` will use all the patterns from the given file and treat them as if +they had been passed in manually. ``subinclude:`` will only apply the patterns +against files that are under the subinclude file's directory. See :hg:`help +hgignore` for details on the format of these files. + All patterns, except for ``glob:`` specified in command line (not for ``-I`` or ``-X`` options), can match also against directories: files under matched directories are treated as matched. @@ -60,3 +66,9 @@ listfile0:list.txt read list from list.txt with null byte delimiters See also :hg:`help filesets`. + +Include examples:: + + include:path/to/mypatternfile reads patterns to be applied to all paths + subinclude:path/to/subignorefile reads patterns specifically for paths in the + subdirectory