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Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or more files
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at a time.
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By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended glob
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patterns.
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Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly.
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.. note::
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Patterns specified in ``.hgignore`` are not rooted.
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Please see :hg:`help hgignore` for details.
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To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start it with
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``path:``. These path names must completely match starting at the
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current repository root.
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To use an extended glob, start a name with ``glob:``. Globs are rooted
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at the current directory; a glob such as ``*.c`` will only match files
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in the current directory ending with ``.c``.
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The supported glob syntax extensions are ``**`` to match any string
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across path separators and ``{a,b}`` to mean "a or b".
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To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with ``re:``.
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Regexp pattern matching is anchored at the root of the repository.
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To read name patterns from a file, use ``listfile:`` or ``listfile0:``.
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The latter expects null delimited patterns while the former expects line
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feeds. Each string read from the file is itself treated as a file
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pattern.
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All patterns, except for ``glob:`` specified in command line (not for
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``-I`` or ``-X`` options) or ``.hgignore`` file, can match also
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against directories: files under matched directories are treated as
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matched.
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Plain examples::
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path:foo/bar a name bar in a directory named foo in the root
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of the repository
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path:path:name a file or directory named "path:name"
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Glob examples::
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glob:*.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory
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*.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory
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**.c any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of the
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current directory including itself.
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foo/*.c any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo
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foo/**.c any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of foo
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including itself.
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Regexp examples::
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re:.*\.c$ any name ending in ".c", anywhere in the repository
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File examples::
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listfile:list.txt read list from list.txt with one file pattern per line
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listfile0:list.txt read list from list.txt with null byte delimiters
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See also :hg:`help filesets`.
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