Merge pull request #15 from LarsSommer/master

Merging of enhancement of excluding and including classes. Closes #7.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f01a9a6..969ea64 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -56,9 +56,11 @@ Options:
   --check,-c              Check the compatibility of two jars.
   --diff,-d               Show the differences between two jars.
   --excludes EXCLUDE;...  Semicolon separated list of full qualified class names
+						  or partly qualified class names with wild cards
                           to be excluded.
   --help,-h               Show this help and exit.
   --includes INCLUDE;...  Semicolon separated list of full qualified class names
+						  or partly qualified class names with wild cards
                           to be included.
   --infer,-i              Infer the version of the new jar based on the previous
                           jar.
@@ -82,6 +84,19 @@ Class org.project.MyClass2
  Changed Field field2 removed: final
 ```
 
+### Excludes / Includes
+
+In- or exclude classes for the validation by specifying a fully qualified 
+class name or using wild cards. There are two wild cards: `*` and `**`.
+`*` is a wild card for an arbitrary number of characters but at most one 
+folder hierarchy. 
+`**` is a wild card for an arbitrary number of characters and an arbitrary 
+number of folder hierarchies. 
+
+```
+% java -jar semver.jar --excludes **/MyClass; org/**/MyClass; org/**/*Class;
+```
+
 ### Check
 
 Check compatibility type between two JARs.