hgignore

I'm managing $HOME using Mercurial, to keep my dotfiles nice and tracked, or at least the ones that matter to me. However, there's a profusion of files and directories in ~ that do not need to be tracked, and that set is ever-changing and ever-growing. Historically, I've dealt with this by having this .hgignore: syntax: glob * This keeps my status clean, as far as it goes, making only previously tracked files visible. However, I have some directories (in my case, scripts , .emacs.d ) that I would like to see untracked files in; I almost always want to track new additions to those directories.

I currently use the answer to a similar question for Visual Studio 2010 as my go to hgignore file. Are there any notable additions to include with VS2012? Below is a compiled list from many different sources. Gist here . I have found that projects upgraded from VS2010 have a lot of backup and upgrade log files not required. # use glob syntax syntax: glob *.obj *.pdb *.user *.aps *.pch *.vspscc *.vssscc *_i.c *_p.c *.ncb *.suo *.tlb *.tlh *.bak *.[Cc]ache *.ilk *.log *.lib *.sbr *.scc [Bb]in [Dd]ebug*/ obj/ [Rr]elease*/ _ReSharper*/ [Tt]humbs.db [Tt]est[Rr]esult* [Bb]uild[Ll]og.* *.[Pp]ublish

I'm trying to get Mercurial to ignore a configuration file, but I'm failing to get it working. I have created a repository on my server with hg init and cloned that repository to my computer. I then want to be able to edit the configurationj file but not commit those changes back to the server. I have tried creating a .hgignore in the root of my clone, but Mercurial flags the file with a ? and whether I commit it or not it still continues to log my configuration changes. Am I creating the .hgignore file in the wrong place, does this file need to be commited? Does it need to be created before I

I need an .hgdontignore file :-) to include certain files and exclude everything else in a directory. Basically I want to include only the .jar files in a particular directory and nothing else. How can I do this? I'm not that skilled in regular expression syntax. Or can I do it with glob syntax? (I prefer that for readability) Just as an example location, let's say I want to exclude all files under foo/bar/ except for foo/bar/*.jar . Michael La Voie To do this, you'll need to use this regular expression: foo/bar/.+?\.(?!jar).+ Explanation You are telling it what to ignore, so this expression

Not to be confused with Mercurial .hgignore for Visual Studio 2008 projects I was asking whether if that same file can be reused for Visual Studio 2010, or some other extensions, etc should be added to it, & why? The new things are related to MSTest stuff. This is the one that I use: # use glob syntax syntax: glob *.obj *.pdb *.user *.aps *.pch *.vspscc *.vssscc *_i.c *_p.c *.ncb *.suo *.tlb *.tlh *.bak *.[Cc]ache *.ilk *.log *.lib *.sbr *.scc *.DotSettings [Bb]in [Dd]ebug*/** obj/ [Rr]elease*/** _ReSharper*/** NDependOut/** packages/** [Tt]humbs.db [Tt]est[Rr]esult* [Bb]uild[Ll]og.* *.[Pp