doc: add description about pattern matching against directories
authorFUJIWARA Katsunori <foozy@lares.dti.ne.jp>
Fri, 17 Jan 2014 23:55:11 +0900
changeset 20290 50db996bccaf
parent 20289 96be25f1da45
child 20291 7d589d923b8a
doc: add description about pattern matching against directories Before this patch, there is no explicit description about pattern matching against directories, even though users may understand it from "plain examples" in "hg help patterns". This patch adds description about pattern matching against directories.
mercurial/help/patterns.txt
--- a/mercurial/help/patterns.txt	Fri Jan 17 23:55:11 2014 +0900
+++ b/mercurial/help/patterns.txt	Fri Jan 17 23:55:11 2014 +0900
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@
 feeds. Each string read from the file is itself treated as a file
 pattern.
 
+All patterns, except for ``glob:`` specified in command line (not for
+``-I`` or ``-X`` options) or ``.hgignore`` file, can match also
+against directories: files under matched directories are treated as
+matched.
+
 Plain examples::
 
   path:foo/bar   a name bar in a directory named foo in the root