--- a/doc/hgignore.5.txt Tue Apr 01 14:35:11 2008 +0200
+++ b/doc/hgignore.5.txt Tue Apr 01 14:35:35 2008 +0200
@@ -17,25 +17,25 @@
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Mercurial ignores every unmanaged file that matches any pattern in an
-ignore file. The patterns in an ignore file do not apply to files
-managed by Mercurial. To control Mercurial's handling of files that
-it manages, see the hg(1) man page. Look for the "-I" and "-X"
+ignore file. The patterns in an ignore file do not apply to files
+managed by Mercurial. To control Mercurial's handling of files that
+it manages, see the hg(1) man page. Look for the "-I" and "-X"
options.
In addition, a Mercurial configuration file can point to a set of
-per-user or global ignore files. See the hgrc(5) man page for details
-of how to configure these files. Look for the "ignore" entry in the
+per-user or global ignore files. See the hgrc(5) man page for details
+of how to configure these files. Look for the "ignore" entry in the
"ui" section.
SYNTAX
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An ignore file is a plain text file consisting of a list of patterns,
-with one pattern per line. Empty lines are skipped. The "#"
+with one pattern per line. Empty lines are skipped. The "#"
character is treated as a comment character, and the "\" character is
treated as an escape character.
-Mercurial supports several pattern syntaxes. The default syntax used
+Mercurial supports several pattern syntaxes. The default syntax used
is Python/Perl-style regular expressions.
To change the syntax used, use a line of the following form:
@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@
The chosen syntax stays in effect when parsing all patterns that
follow, until another syntax is selected.
-Neither glob nor regexp patterns are rooted. A glob-syntax pattern of
+Neither glob nor regexp patterns are rooted. A glob-syntax pattern of
the form "*.c" will match a file ending in ".c" in any directory, and
-a regexp pattern of the form "\.c$" will do the same. To root a
+a regexp pattern of the form "\.c$" will do the same. To root a
regexp pattern, start it with "^".
EXAMPLE