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

[Craig Ozancin]

Sorry about the serial replies.

the last statement syhould have been:

syntax: glob
**/pub-src/


On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 3:13 PM Craig Ozancin <c.ozancin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:''
>
> syntax: glob
>
> **/pub-src/**
>
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 3:09 PM Craig Ozancin <c.ozancin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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