hgignore or other tricks to not cross mount points?

[Mike Meyer]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:26:24 -0500
Mike Gerdts <mgerdts at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've found mercurial to be rather handy for keeping track of config
> file changes on unix boxes.  Ideally all config files should be under
> /etc, but it doesn't always work out that way.  This suggests the need
> for rooting the repository at /.  This in itself works fine, but it is
> rather tedious to maintain /.hgignore to exclude any place that
> someone may mount up an NFS file system, loopback mount, or some sort
> of removable disk.
> 
> Are there any tricks available to make it so that "hg status", "hg
> addremove", etc. do not cross mount points?  Alternatively, is there a
> mechanism with .hgignore to ignore all but a certain set of
> directories?

[Not quite what you asked, but vaguely on topic.]

Personally, I prefer perforce for this. You can map or not map pretty
much files between the repo and the workspace pretty much any way you
want. That all that information - as well as the repo - is on a server
means you don't have to worry about restoring it. I also add any data
files for the box (web server pages/scripts, etc.). Restoring a system
amounts to doing an install, installing the p4 binary, and running an
"p4 sync -f" to restore the config & data files.

    <mike
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