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Using Mercurial, I need to ignore all files except for those in a certain directory called "keepers". On the face of things, this seemed easy using Regex and Negative Lookahead; however, although I am able to verify my regex in Regex Buddy and other tools, in TortoiseHg, it doesn't work as expected. Files: junk\junk.txt junk\text keepers\test\test keepers\test\test2\hi.txt keepersblah.txt Only the two files under keepers should be not be ignored. Here is the regex I hoped would work: ^(?!keepers/).+$ Regrettably, this causes all files to be ignored. If I change it to: ^(?!keepers).+$ it works

Closed. This question is off-topic . It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it's on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 8 years ago . How can I create this file in a directory in windows 2003 SP2: .hgignore I get error: You must type a file name. That's a "feature" of Windows Explorer. Try to create your files from a command line (or from a batch/program you wrote) and it should work fine. Try this from a dos prompt: echo Hello there! > .hgignore By the way Raymond Chen had a blog post about this topic a while back: Why doesn't Explorer let

In my mercurial.ini file, I call a global hgignore file like this: [ui] ignore = ~/hgignore.ini This refers to a hgignore.ini file which is in the same directory as the mercurial.ini file. Does the local hgignore override the global hgignore? If so, is it recommended to have a single global hgignore with relevant sections marked or have a global hgignore file for general patterns and individual local hgignore files for special patterns pertaining to the particular repo? By global hgignore with relevant sections marked , I mean: syntax: glob # VISUAL STUDIO *.obj *.pdb *.suo [Bb]in [Dd]ebug*/

Can anyone tell me why mercurial is displaying ignored files for the 'hg status' command? Here's the confirmation that mercurial is indeed ignoring the files: $ hg addremove $ hg commit nothing changed Now, have a look at the status output. I ran this immediately after the lines above. (Prinout is partial, with identifiable text removed) $ hg status ? Core/target/Core-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-tests.jar ? Core/target/Core-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar ? Core/target/classes/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF ? Core/target/classes/xxx/yyy/zzz/X.class ? Core/target/classes/xxx/yyy/zzz/XBackup.class ? Core/target/classes/xxx/yyy/zzz