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designer-trying-coding
designer-trying-coding

Reputation: 6074

.hgignore not working for mercurial

I use mercurial for php projects and my .hgignore file is not working. It's supposed to be placed in the .hg/ folder, isn't it?

.hgignore

/.hg/.hgignore file

# Allow *. syntax
syntax:glob

# Ignore these files
.hgignore
.htaccess
.hg/*

Upvotes: 12

Views: 12724

Answers (2)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1328662

There is no mention in the .hgignore page of that file being inside .hg:

The .hgignore file sits in the working directory, next to the .hg folder.

And whatever file you want to ignore, you must be sure they are not already tracked. If they are, you need to remove them first, and then add them as private (non-tracked) file.

Upvotes: 30

Johannes Rudolph
Johannes Rudolph

Reputation: 35761

Just from memory I think .hgignore needs to live in the repository root. You certainly don't need to tell it to ignore the .hg folder, that will happen more or less automatically. Any reason why you don't want your ignore and access settings in your repo?

Upvotes: 3

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