From patchwork Fri Jan 17 14:57:08 2014 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [6, of, 6] doc: add description about pattern matching against directories From: Katsunori FUJIWARA X-Patchwork-Id: 3368 Message-Id: To: mercurial-devel@selenic.com Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 23:57:08 +0900 # HG changeset patch # User FUJIWARA Katsunori # Date 1389970511 -32400 # Fri Jan 17 23:55:11 2014 +0900 # Node ID a184e98b8709653728877d6ef6cc8c13ca47ffcf # Parent 6c34bdf1470b2d13e3e4e48b158500954ce00344 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. diff --git a/mercurial/help/patterns.txt b/mercurial/help/patterns.txt --- a/mercurial/help/patterns.txt +++ b/mercurial/help/patterns.txt @@ -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