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Martin Drozdik
Martin Drozdik

Reputation: 13323

How to remove all files with a specific extension from version control?

I am using Mercurial under Linux. I would like to exclude all files containing the pattern *.pro.user* from the version control system.

I tried to list all the files with:

find . -name "*.pro.user*"

This turned out also some results which are in the .hg folder:

...
./.hg/store/data/_test_run_multiple/_test_run_multiple.pro.user.i
./.hg/store/data/_test_non_dominated_sorting/_test_sorting.pro.user.i
./Analyzer/AlgorithmAnalyzer.pro.user
./Analyzer/AlgorithmAnalyzer.pro.user.a6874dd
...

I then tried to pipe this result to the hg forget command like:

find . -name "*.pro.user*" | hg forget

but I get:

abort: no files specified

My guess is that the list needs to be processed in some way in order to be passed to hg forget.

I would like to ask:

  1. How can I pass the result of my find query into the hg forget command?

  2. Since the query result contains files in the "private" folder .hg, is it a good idea? I hope that Mercurial will ignore that request, but shoud I remove those results somehow?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 118

Answers (2)

damienfrancois
damienfrancois

Reputation: 59320

First of all, you can use find * -name "*.pro.user*" to avoid looking in .hg.

Mercurial's forget command requires its arguments on the command line. So you need to use xargs:

find * -name "*.pro.user*" | xargs hg forget

Alternatively you can ask find to do the job:

find * -name "*.pro.user*" -exec hg forget {} \;

Finally, you should add *.pro.user* to your .hgignore file.

Upvotes: 2

icabod
icabod

Reputation: 7084

Try the following:

hg forget "set:**.pro.user*"

This tells Mercurial to forget any files that match the fileset **.pro.user*. As the fileset is defined in Mercurial, it won't go into the .hg directory. You can do even more with filesets by looking at: hg -v help filesets

The ** at the start means to work in subdirectories, rather than just the current directory.

Upvotes: 3

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