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Synopsis
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The Mercurial system uses a file called ``.hgignore`` in the root
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directory of a repository to control its behavior when it searches
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for files that it is not currently tracking.
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Description
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The working directory of a Mercurial repository will often contain
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files that should not be tracked by Mercurial. These include backup
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files created by editors and build products created by compilers.
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These files can be ignored by listing them in a ``.hgignore`` file in
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the root of the working directory. The ``.hgignore`` file must be
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created manually. It is typically put under version control, so that
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the settings will propagate to other repositories with push and pull.
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An untracked file is ignored if its path relative to the repository
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root directory, or any prefix path of that path, is matched against
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any pattern in ``.hgignore``.
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For example, say we have an untracked file, ``file.c``, at
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``a/b/file.c`` inside our repository. Mercurial will ignore ``file.c``
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if any pattern in ``.hgignore`` matches ``a/b/file.c``, ``a/b`` or ``a``.
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In addition, a Mercurial configuration file can reference a set of
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per-user or global ignore files. See the ``ignore`` configuration
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key on the ``[ui]`` section of :hg:`help config` for details of how to
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configure these files.
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To control Mercurial's handling of files that it manages, many
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commands support the ``-I`` and ``-X`` options; see
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:hg:`help <command>` and :hg:`help patterns` for details.
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Files that are already tracked are not affected by .hgignore, even
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if they appear in .hgignore. An untracked file X can be explicitly
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added with :hg:`add X`, even if X would be excluded by a pattern
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in .hgignore.
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Syntax
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An ignore file is a plain text file consisting of a list of patterns,
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with one pattern per line. Empty lines are skipped. The ``#``
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character is treated as a comment character, and the ``\`` character
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is treated as an escape character.
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Mercurial supports several pattern syntaxes. The default syntax used
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is Python/Perl-style regular expressions.
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To change the syntax used, use a line of the following form::
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  syntax: NAME
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where ``NAME`` is one of the following:
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``regexp``
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  Regular expression, Python/Perl syntax.
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``glob``
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  Shell-style glob.
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The chosen syntax stays in effect when parsing all patterns that
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follow, until another syntax is selected.
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Neither glob nor regexp patterns are rooted. A glob-syntax pattern of
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the form ``*.c`` will match a file ending in ``.c`` in any directory,
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and a regexp pattern of the form ``\.c$`` will do the same. To root a
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regexp pattern, start it with ``^``.
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.. note::
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  Patterns specified in other than ``.hgignore`` are always rooted.
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  Please see :hg:`help patterns` for details.
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Example
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Here is an example ignore file. ::
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  # use glob syntax.
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  syntax: glob
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  *.elc
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  *.pyc
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  *~
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  # switch to regexp syntax.
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  syntax: regexp
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  ^\.pc/