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help: explain effect of .hgignore on tracked files
author | Adrian Buehlmann <adrian@cadifra.com> |
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date | Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:31:22 +0200 |
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30 configure these files. | 30 configure these files. |
31 | 31 |
32 To control Mercurial's handling of files that it manages, many | 32 To control Mercurial's handling of files that it manages, many |
33 commands support the ``-I`` and ``-X`` options; see | 33 commands support the ``-I`` and ``-X`` options; see |
34 :hg:`help <command>` and :hg:`help patterns` for details. | 34 :hg:`help <command>` and :hg:`help patterns` for details. |
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36 Files that are already tracked are not affected by .hgignore, even | |
37 if they appear in .hgignore. An untracked file X can be explicitly | |
38 added with :hg:`add X`, even if X would be excluded by a pattern | |
39 in .hgignore. | |
35 | 40 |
36 Syntax | 41 Syntax |
37 ------ | 42 ------ |
38 | 43 |
39 An ignore file is a plain text file consisting of a list of patterns, | 44 An ignore file is a plain text file consisting of a list of patterns, |