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For example, the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">add</span></tt> command skips over files that match ignore patterns and preferences can be associated with files using rule patterns. The pattern syntax is described below.</p> <p>Trailing slashes on patterns are ignored. If the pattern contains a slash or is a regular expression, it is compared to the whole path from the branch root. Otherwise, it is compared to only the last component of the path. To match a file only in the root directory, prepend <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">./</span></tt>. Patterns specifying absolute paths are not allowed.</p> <p>Patterns may include globbing wildcards such as:</p> <div class="highlight-python"><pre>? - Matches any single character except '/' * - Matches 0 or more characters except '/' /**/ - Matches 0 or more directories in a path [a-z] - Matches a single character from within a group of characters</pre> </div> <p>Patterns may also be <a class="reference external" href="http://docs.python.org/library/re.html">Python regular expressions</a>. Regular expression patterns are identified by a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">RE:</span></tt> prefix followed by the regular expression. Regular expression patterns may not include named or numbered groups.</p> <p>Case insensitive ignore patterns can be specified with regular expressions by using the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">i</span></tt> (for ignore case) flag in the pattern.</p> <p>For example, a case insensitive match for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">foo</span></tt> may be specified as:</p> <div class="highlight-python"><pre>RE:(?i)foo</pre> </div> <p>Ignore patterns may be prefixed with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">!</span></tt>, which means that a filename matched by that pattern will not be ignored.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h4>Previous topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="formats-help.html" title="previous chapter">Storage Formats</a></p> <h4>Next topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="repositories-help.html" title="next chapter">Repositories</a></p> <h3>This Page</h3> <ul class="this-page-menu"> <li><a href="../_sources/user-reference/patterns-help.txt" rel="nofollow">Show Source</a></li> </ul> <div id="searchbox" style="display: none"> <h3>Quick search</h3> <form class="search" action="../search.html" method="get"> <input type="text" name="q" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> <p class="searchtip" style="font-size: 90%"> Enter search terms or a module, class or function name. </p> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="repositories-help.html" title="Repositories" >next</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="formats-help.html" title="Storage Formats" >previous</a> |</li> <li><a href="http://bazaar.canonical.com/"> <img src="../_static/bzr icon 16.png" /> Home</a> | </li> <a href="http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/en/">Documentation</a> | </li> <li><a href="../index.html">Table of Contents (2.6.0)</a> »</li> <li><a href="index.html" >Bazaar User Reference</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer"> © Copyright 2009-2011 Canonical Ltd. 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