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File Name Patterns
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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, and when the path points to a directory, it is matched
recursively. To match all files in a directory non-recursively (not including
any files in subdirectories), ``rootfilesin:`` can be used, specifying an
absolute path (relative to the 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``. ``rootglob:`` can be used
instead of ``glob:`` for a glob that is rooted at the root of the
repository.
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.
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.
For ``-I`` and ``-X`` options, ``glob:`` will match directories recursively.
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"
rootfilesin:foo/bar the files in a directory called foo/bar, but not any files
in its subdirectories and not a file bar in directory foo
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/* any file in directory foo
foo/** any file in directory foo plus all its subdirectories,
recursively
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.
rootglob:*.c any name ending in ".c" in the root of the repository
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`.
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
