Adding globs to .hgignore

Thomas Arendsen Hein thomas at intevation.de
Tue Jan 9 20:59:12 UTC 2007


* Steve Borho <steve at borho.org> [20070109 18:24]:
> The problem I'm running into is that there's no real straightforward way
> to add these new masks to .hgignore because of the way it's parsed
> (it's context sensitive based on the last 'syntax:' line it has seen).  I'm 
> looking for suggestions on the best way to implement this.
> 
> One possible idea is to keep a section of the .hgignore file for my purposes:
> 
> # Ignore masks added by Qct
> syntax: glob
> *.z
> # end of Qct supplied masks
> 
> Another is to simply add 'syntax: glob *.z' for each mask I add.

Search for "syntax: glob", if not found, add at the end.
Insert your pattern after this line.

Thomas

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