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    40 FILE NAME PATTERNS

    41 ------------------

    42 

    43     Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or more

    44     files at a time.

    45 

    46     By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended

    47     glob patterns.

    48 

    49     Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly.

    50 

    51     To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start a

    52     name with "path:".  These path names must match completely, from

    53     the root of the current repository.

    54 

    55     To use an extended glob, start a name with "glob:".  Globs are

    56     rooted at the current directory; a glob such as "*.c" will match

    57     files ending in ".c" in the current directory only.

    58 

    59     The supported glob syntax extensions are "**" to match any string

    60     across path separators, and "{a,b}" to mean "a or b".

    61 

    62     To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with "re:".

    63     Regexp pattern matching is anchored at the root of the repository.

    64 

    65     Plain examples:

    66 

    67     path:foo/bar   a name bar in a directory named foo in the root of

    68                    the repository

    69     path:path:name a file or directory named "path:name"

    70 

    71     Glob examples:

    72 

    73     glob:*.c       any name ending in ".c" in the current directory

    74     *.c            any name ending in ".c" in the current directory

    75     **.c           any name ending in ".c" in the current directory, or

    76                    any subdirectory

    77     foo/*.c        any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo

    78     foo/**.c       any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo, or any

    79                    subdirectory

    80 

    81     Regexp examples:

    82 

    83     re:.*\.c$      any name ending in ".c", anywhere in the repository

    84