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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.
-
-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.
-
-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``.
-
-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.
-
-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"
-
-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/*.c        any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo
-  foo/**.c       any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of foo
-                 including itself.
-
-Regexp examples::
-
-  re:.*\.c$      any name ending in ".c", anywhere in the repository