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@ -2618,15 +2618,13 @@ hledger's globs are similar to zsh's:
`*` to match zero or more characters that aren't a path separator (like `/`);
`**` to match zero or more subdirectories and/or zero or more characters at the start of a file name;
etc.
Also, hledger's globs always exclude the including file itself.
So, you can do
For convenience, `include` always excludes the current file. So, you can do
- `include *.journal` to include all other journal files in the current directory (excluding [dot files](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_file_and_hidden_directory))
- `include **.journal` to include all other journal files in this directory and below (excluding dot directories/files)
- `include **.journal` to include all other journal files in this directory and below (excluding dot files and top-level dot directories)
- `include timelogs/2???.timedot` to include all timedot files named like a year number.
Note `*` and `**` mostly won't implicitly match dot files or dot directories,
but `**` does implicitly search non-top-level dot directories.
Note `*` and `**` usually won't match dot files or dot directories, with one exception: `**` does search non-top-level dot directories.
If this causes problems, make your glob pattern more specific (eg `**.journal` instead of `**`).
If you are using many, or deeply nested, include files, and have an error that's hard to pinpoint: