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For example:</p> <div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">name</span> <span class="o">*.</span><span class="n">bat</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="n">eol</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">native</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">name</span> <span class="o">*.</span><span class="n">html</span> <span class="o">*.</span><span class="n">xml</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="n">keywords</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">xml_escape</span> </pre></div> </div> <p>Preferences like these are useful for commands and plugins wishing to provide custom behaviour for selected files. For more information on end of line conversion see <a class="reference internal" href="eol-help.html"><span class="doc">End of Line Conversion</span></a>. Keyword support is provided by the <a class="reference external" href="http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/keywords-plugin.html">keywords plugin</a>.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="files"> <h2>Files<a class="headerlink" href="#files" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>Default rules for all branches are defined in the optional file <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">BZR_HOME/rules</span></code>.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="rule-patterns"> <h2>Rule Patterns<a class="headerlink" href="#rule-patterns" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>Patterns are ordered and searching stops as soon as one matches. As a consequence, more explicit patterns should be placed towards the top of the file. Rule patterns use exactly the same conventions as ignore patterns. See <a class="reference internal" href="patterns-help.html"><span class="doc">Patterns</span></a> for details.</p> <div class="admonition note"> <p class="first admonition-title">Note</p> <p class="last">Patterns containing square brackets or spaces should be surrounded in quotes to ensure they are correctly parsed.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h3><a href="../index.html">Table Of Contents</a></h3> <ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#">Rules</a><ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#files">Files</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#rule-patterns">Rule Patterns</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h4>Previous topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="repositories-help.html" title="previous chapter">Repositories</a></p> <h4>Next topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="standalone-trees-help.html" title="next chapter">Standalone Trees</a></p> <div role="note" aria-label="source link"> <h3>This Page</h3> <ul class="this-page-menu"> <li><a href="../_sources/user-reference/rules-help.txt" rel="nofollow">Show Source</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="searchbox" style="display: none" role="search"> <h3>Quick search</h3> <form class="search" action="../search.html" method="get"> <div><input type="text" name="q" /></div> <div><input type="submit" value="Go" /></div> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="standalone-trees-help.html" title="Standalone Trees" >next</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="repositories-help.html" title="Repositories" >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 class="nav-item nav-item-0"><a href="../index.html">Table of Contents (2.7.0)</a> »</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="index.html" >Bazaar User Reference</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer" role="contentinfo"> © Copyright 2009-2011 Canonical Ltd. 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