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authorNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2011-03-21 21:40:07 -0400
committerNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2011-03-21 21:40:07 -0400
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--omit and --include now interpret their values more usefully. Fixes #121.
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The ``include`` and ``omit`` filename patterns follow typical shell syntax:
``*`` matches any number of characters and ``?`` matches a single character.
-The full semantics are specified in the `fnmatch docs`_.
-
-.. _fnmatch docs: http://docs.python.org/library/fnmatch.html
+Patterns that start with a wildcard character are used as-is, other patterns
+are interpreted relative to the current directory.
The ``source``, ``include``, and ``omit`` values all work together to determine
the source that will be measured.