What's the simplest .hgignore syntax to ignore a directory and all its contents?

[Craig Ozancin]

It is really simple. If you have a single directory that you know the path
to, add something line this to your .hgignore before any globbing / regex
statements:

work/tracefiles/

If it is in an subdirectory somewhere and is a unique name, you can do
something like this:''



On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 12:46 PM Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> As per the subject, if I want to ignore a directory and all its
> contents and sub-directories what is the easiest way to do this in
> .hgignore?
>
> I'm assuming there is only one directory with the name I want to
> ignore.
>
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