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    File Name Patterns
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    Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or more files
    at a time.
    
    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.
    
    .. note::
    
      Patterns specified in ``.hgignore`` are not rooted.
      Please see :hg:`help hgignore` for details.
    
    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, and when the path points to a directory, it is matched
    recursively. To match all files in a directory non-recursively (not including
    any files in subdirectories), ``rootfilesin:`` can be used, specifying an
    absolute path (relative to the repository root). To match a single file exactly,
    relative to the repository root, you can use ``filepath:``.
    
    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``. ``rootglob:`` can be used
    instead of ``glob:`` for a glob that is rooted at the root of the
    repository.
    
    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.
    
    To read name patterns from a file, use ``listfile:`` or ``listfile0:``.
    The latter expects null delimited patterns while the former expects line
    feeds. Each string read from the file is itself treated as a file
    pattern.
    
    To read a set of patterns from a file, use ``include:`` or ``subinclude:``.
    ``include:`` will use all the patterns from the given file and treat them as if
    they had been passed in manually.  ``subinclude:`` will only apply the patterns
    against files that are under the subinclude file's directory. See :hg:`help
    hgignore` for details on the format of these files.
    
    All patterns, except for ``glob:`` specified in command line (not for
    ``-I`` or ``-X`` options), can match also against directories: files
    under matched directories are treated as matched.
    For ``-I`` and ``-X`` options, ``glob:`` will match directories recursively.
    
    Plain examples::
    
      path:foo/bar                  a name bar in a directory named foo in the root
                                    of the repository
      path:some/path                a file or directory named "some/path"
      filepath:some/path/to/a/file  exactly a single file named
                                    "some/path/to/a/file", relative to the root
                                    of the repository
      rootfilesin:foo/bar           the files in a directory called foo/bar, but
                                    not any files in its subdirectories and not
                                    a file bar in directory foo
    
    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/*          any file in directory foo
      foo/**         any file in directory foo plus all its subdirectories,
                     recursively
      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.
      rootglob:*.c   any name ending in ".c" in the root of the repository
    
    Regexp examples::
    
      re:.*\.c$      any name ending in ".c", anywhere in the repository
    
    File examples::
    
      listfile:list.txt  read list from list.txt with one file pattern per line
      listfile0:list.txt read list from list.txt with null byte delimiters
    
    See also :hg:`help filesets`.
    
    Include examples::
    
      include:path/to/mypatternfile    reads patterns to be applied to all paths
      subinclude:path/to/subignorefile reads patterns specifically for paths in the
                                       subdirectory