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[Scott Palmer]

On 2011-07-27, at 5:33 PM, Matt Mackall wrote:


> 
> It's worth noting that this is just the most dangerous side-effect of a
> common usage error: failure to properly set up a .hgignore file. Which
> is either caused by:
> 
> a) people blindly running hg add on their first commit without checking
> status
> b) tutorials not being explicit about the importance of .hgignore files
> 
> ..which regularly results in people adding backup files, binary files,
> tarballs, and other garbage to their permanent history.
> 
> It's tempting to say that we should refuse to do 'hg add' with no args
> if an ignore file doesn't exist. Or issue a really loud warning. 

Perhaps Mercurial should include an option to generate a .hgignore file that contains entries to exclude the main known problem files, or at least include them as examples in the output of "hg help ignore"

Scott