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antony
antony

Reputation: 2997

Mercurial, ignore only object files for which the source is there

I have quite a few objects (.o) files in my (future) Mercurial repository. I have the source for most of them, but some were downloaded / provided by collaborators and I don't have the sources. Of course, versioning binary files is bad, but I'd like to do that for the few files for which I don't have the sources (given that they will rarely, if ever, be modified, and that on the other hand I cannot regenerate them myself).

Assuming that I have a simple way of determining where .c corresponding to a .o is if it exists (e.g. always in the same folder), is there an easy way to achieve this?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 442

Answers (1)

Joel B Fant
Joel B Fant

Reputation: 24766

You can safely add *.o files to your .hgignore, and then manually hg add specific *.o files to the repository for tracking. Any automatic adding (such as hg addremove, or hg add without an argument) will still ignore *.o files, but you can manually add anything ignored and it will be tracked.

Upvotes: 6

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