diff -r 5ff1fc726848 -r c6bca38c1cbf eggs/mercurial-1.7.3-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/mercurial/help/patterns.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/eggs/mercurial-1.7.3-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/mercurial/help/patterns.txt Sat Jan 08 11:20:57 2011 +0530 @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or more files +at a time. + +By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended glob +patterns. + +Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly. + +To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start it with +``path:``. These path names must completely match starting at the +current repository root. + +To use an extended glob, start a name with ``glob:``. Globs are rooted +at the current directory; a glob such as ``*.c`` will only match files +in the current directory ending with ``.c``. + +The supported glob syntax extensions are ``**`` to match any string +across path separators and ``{a,b}`` to mean "a or b". + +To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with ``re:``. +Regexp pattern matching is anchored at the root of the repository. + +Plain examples:: + + path:foo/bar a name bar in a directory named foo in the root + of the repository + path:path:name a file or directory named "path:name" + +Glob examples:: + + glob:*.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory + *.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory + **.c any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of the + current directory including itself. + foo/*.c any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo + foo/**.c any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of foo + including itself. + +Regexp examples:: + + re:.*\.c$ any name ending in ".c", anywhere in the repository