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add debugignore which yields the combined ignore patten of the .hgignore files

For GUI clients its sometimes important to know which files will be ignored and
which files will be important. This allows the GUI client to skipping redoing a
'hg status' when the files are ignored but have changed. (For instance, a
typical case is that the "build" directory inside some project is ignored but
files in it frequently change.)

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 hg
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Mercurial source code management system
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:Author:         Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
:Organization:   Mercurial
:Manual section: 1
:Manual group:   Mercurial Manual

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Synopsis
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**hg** *command* [*option*]... [*argument*]...

Description
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The **hg** command provides a command line interface to the Mercurial
system.

Command Elements
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files...
    indicates one or more filename or relative path filenames; see
    `File Name Patterns`_ for information on pattern matching

path
    indicates a path on the local machine

revision
    indicates a changeset which can be specified as a changeset
    revision number, a tag, or a unique substring of the changeset
    hash value

repository path
    either the pathname of a local repository or the URI of a remote
    repository.

.. include:: hg.1.gendoc.txt

Files
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``.hgignore``
    This file contains regular expressions (one per line) that
    describe file names that should be ignored by **hg**. For details,
    see |hgignore(5)|_.

``.hgtags``
    This file contains changeset hash values and text tag names (one
    of each separated by spaces) that correspond to tagged versions of
    the repository contents.

``/etc/mercurial/hgrc``, ``$HOME/.hgrc``, ``.hg/hgrc``
    This file contains defaults and configuration. Values in
    ``.hg/hgrc`` override those in ``$HOME/.hgrc``, and these override
    settings made in the global ``/etc/mercurial/hgrc`` configuration.
    See |hgrc(5)|_ for details of the contents and format of these
    files.

Some commands (e.g. revert) produce backup files ending in ``.orig``,
if the ``.orig`` file already exists and is not tracked by Mercurial,
it will be overwritten.

Bugs
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Probably lots, please post them to the mailing list (see Resources_
below) when you find them.

See Also
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|hgignore(5)|_, |hgrc(5)|_

Author
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Written by Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>

Resources
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Main Web Site: http://mercurial.selenic.com/

Source code repository: http://selenic.com/hg

Mailing list: http://selenic.com/mailman/listinfo/mercurial

Copying
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Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Matt Mackall.
Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General
Public License version 2 or any later version.

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