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roshanvid
roshanvid

Reputation: 793

How do I ignore .hgignore in my local repository?

.hgignore itself is version controlled. I've added some object dirs i want to ignore but i do not want to commit these changes to .hgignore. What do i do?

Upvotes: 14

Views: 4713

Answers (2)

Zr40
Zr40

Reputation: 1919

Add the following to the repo's .hg/hgrc:

[ui]
ignore = /path/to/repo/.hg/hgignore

and create a new file .hg/hgignore beside it. This new file will be untracked, but work the same as the versioned .hgignore file for this specific working copy. (The /path/to/repo bit is unfortunate but necessary to make it work when invoking hg from within a subdir of the repo.)

Source: Mercurial Tips and Tricks

Upvotes: 15

Tim Keating
Tim Keating

Reputation: 6641

Ironically enough, you can also just add

syntax:glob
.hgignore

To the .hgignore file itself.

Upvotes: 9

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