question about 'hg status'

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:53:23AM -0800, j w wrote:
> I'm using hg to track my incremental work on top of the "main" VCS.
> Thus, I only track a few files, but it's inside a tree with thousands.
> 
> If I just run 'hg status', it gives me zillions of '?' files, so
> naturally I use 'hg status -mad' instead.
> It works, but seems to be looking at all those other files I don't
> care about, which is slow (minutes).

Use .hgignore.

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