Equivalent of .gitattributes export-ignore for Mercurial?

[PIERRE AUGIER]

Hi,

For Git repositories, [Meson](https://mesonbuild.com/) is sensible to .gitattributes export-ignore to choose which files are included in a dist archive. In the background it uses `git archive`. This is convenient because .gitattributes is versioned.

I'd like to find if something similar can be done for Mercurial repositories.

I guess Meson uses `hg archive`.

I didn't find in the doc how to configure `hg archive` and if it is possible to configure it from a versioned file in the repository.

Is it already possible? If no, would it be possible to do that with a future Mercurial version?

Pierre

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