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.
Note Patterns specified in .hgignore are not rooted. Please
see hg help hgignore for details.
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.
To read name patterns from a file, use listfile: or listfile0:.
The latter expects null delimited patterns while the former
expects line feeds. Each string read from the file is itself
treated as a file pattern.
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
File examples:
listfile:list.txt read list from list.txt with one file pattern per line
listfile0:list.txt read list from list.txt with null byte delimiters
See also hg help filesets.
