1 Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or more files

     2 at a time.

     3 

     4 By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended glob

     5 patterns.

     6 

     7 Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly.

     8 

     9 To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start it with

    10 ``path:``. These path names must completely match starting at the

    11 current repository root.

    12 

    13 To use an extended glob, start a name with ``glob:``. Globs are rooted

    14 at the current directory; a glob such as ``*.c`` will only match files

    15 in the current directory ending with ``.c``.

    16 

    17 The supported glob syntax extensions are ``**`` to match any string

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

    19 

    20 To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with ``re:``.

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

    22 

    23 Plain examples::

    24 

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

    26                  of the repository

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

    28 

    29 Glob examples::

    30 

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

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

    33   **.c           any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of the

    34                  current directory including itself.

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

    36   foo/**.c       any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of foo

    37                  including itself.

    38 

    39 Regexp examples::

    40 

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