How to add .hgignore to my Mercurial folder?

Question

I\'m learning to use Mercurial, and its learning curve is pretty straightforward. But one of my problem is, I can\'t add the .hgignore file to Mercurial folder. Windows (7) does

Answer 1

Execute

touch .hgignore

or

echo "" > .hgignore

in the needed directory