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The .hgignore file is used to configure the Mercurial SCM to ignore specific files or file extensions, excluding them from a repository.

In the system, the .hgignore file is used to configure the SCM to ignore specific files or file extensions, excluding them from a repository.

For questions that are specific to Mercurial's ignore mechanism, such as .hgignore syntax, use this tag. For VCS-agnostic questions, such as whether certain types of files should be checked into source control, use .

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Mercurial .hgignore for Visual Studio 2008 projects

What is a good setup for .hgignore file when working with Visual Studio 2008? I mostly develop on my own, only occasionly I clone the repository for somebody else to work on it. I'm thinking about obj folders, .suo, .sln, .user files etc.. Can they…
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How can I ignore everything under a folder in Mercurial

I am looking for an expression for the .hgignore file, to ignore all files beneath a specified folder. eg: I would like to ignore all files and folders beneath bin Actually any advice on how the expressions are formed would be great
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Mercurial .hgignore for Visual Studio 2010 projects

Not to be confused with Mercurial .hgignore for Visual Studio 2008 projects I was asking whether if that same file can be reused for Visual Studio 2010, or some other extensions, etc should be added to it, & why?
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How to list all files in a repository in Mercurial (hg)?

Is there a command in mercurial that will list all files currently under source control? I can do a dir /s to list all files in my folder and subfolders, but I have no idea which have been added to my repository. I have a variety of excluded file…
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Mercurial ignore file

I'm trying to get Mercurial to ignore a configuration file, but I'm failing to get it working. I have created a repository on my server with hg init and cloned that repository to my computer. I then want to be able to edit the configurationj file…
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Mercurial: Globally Ignore Files

I know about .hgignore and how I can ignore files on a project-by-project basis. I want to ignore stuff for all Mercurial repositories. Is there something I can stick in .hgrc? Or put a .hgignore in my $HOME path (I tried that already but maybe I…
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Mercurial: How to ignore changes to a tracked file

I have a file with database settings in my project which I have set to some defaults. The file is tracked by Mercurial and checked in. Since this file will be edited with different values various developer machines, is there a way I can tell…
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hgignore: help ignoring all files but certain ones

I need an .hgdontignore file :-) to include certain files and exclude everything else in a directory. Basically I want to include only the .jar files in a particular directory and nothing else. How can I do this? I'm not that skilled in regular…
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Interconversion of gitignore and hgignore?

I'm just starting to use hg-git to push some mercurial repositories to github, and I'm realizing that if people check them out using git, they'll need a .gitignore file in the repository. Is there any automated way to convert hgignore to gitignore…
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hg local ignore

I could have sworn there was a way to keep a local ignore file in an hg repo, i.e. a file similar in function to .hgignore, but not checked into the repo. This could be used to ignore changes to an IDE project file if different IDEs are being used,…
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Is there an ignore-on-commit option in mercurial?

Is there any way to ignore changes to some files on a commit with mercurial? I've got a specific situation where we have a default oracle tnsnames.ora file that points to 127.0.0.1, but some developers will modify it to point to other systems, but…
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Mercurial .hgignore for Visual Studio 2012 projects

I currently use the answer to a similar question for Visual Studio 2010 as my go to hgignore file. Are there any notable additions to include with VS2012? Below is a compiled list from many different sources. Gist here. I have found that projects…
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ignoring folders in mercurial

Caveat: I try all the posibilities listed here: How can I ignore everything under a folder in Mercurial. None works as I hope. I want to ignore every thing under the folder test. But not ignore srcProject\test\TestManager I try syntax:…
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hg - Ignore directory at root only

In my project's .hgignore, I want to exclude /static/ (i.e., the static folder at the root of the directory), but not /templates/static/. How would I configure .hgignore to allow this?
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Global hgignore usage

In my mercurial.ini file, I call a global hgignore file like this: [ui] ignore = ~/hgignore.ini This refers to a hgignore.ini file which is in the same directory as the mercurial.ini file. Does the local hgignore override the global hgignore? If…
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