# HG changeset patch
# User Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org>
# Date 1550269232 18000
# Node ID 823e906d879da278f3adb51e735c5e03d504efcd
# Parent  791f5d5f7a96430ac7deb64b7b61769b19de60ff
help: properly document the default pattern

The default isn't to glob. It's relpath, which does no globbing at
all. Thus most commands and options like -X/-I and hg files require
`glob:` in front of them to actually do any globbing.

I think long ago the default was to glob, but that hasn't been true
for a long time.

diff -r 791f5d5f7a96 -r 823e906d879d mercurial/helptext/patterns.txt
--- a/mercurial/helptext/patterns.txt	Fri Dec 10 16:25:02 2021 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/helptext/patterns.txt	Fri Feb 15 17:20:32 2019 -0500
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or more files
 at a time.
 
-By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended glob
-patterns.
+By default, Mercurial treats filenames verbatim without pattern
+matching, relative to the current working directory. Note that your
+system shell might perform pattern matching of its own before passing
+filenames into Mercurial.
 
 Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly.