feature request: do not list the contents of unversioned directories

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 18:52, Steve Losh <steve at stevelosh.com> wrote:
>> I have a build script inside my repo that does a full svn checkout of the same (current) repo into a subfolder. (I'm working inside an hgsubversion repo) When I run hg status, I'd like mercurial to just show me that the folder is unversioned. I would like it to stop trying to show me the 120,000 unversioned files contained inside that folder. I think svn acts this way, and I think mercurial should copy that behavior.
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> Add it to .hgignore?
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> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/.hgignore

More specifically in the case of hgsubversion, try hg svn genignore.

Cheers,

Dirkjan