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diff mercurial/help/hgignore.txt @ 17116:d8c76c82d012
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 |
parents | e3c7ca15cde2 |
children | 979b107eaea2 |
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--- a/mercurial/help/hgignore.txt Sun Jul 01 10:06:16 2012 +0200 +++ b/mercurial/help/hgignore.txt Mon Jul 02 00:31:22 2012 +0200 @@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ commands support the ``-I`` and ``-X`` options; see :hg:`help <command>` and :hg:`help patterns` for details. +Files that are already tracked are not affected by .hgignore, even +if they appear in .hgignore. An untracked file X can be explicitly +added with :hg:`add X`, even if X would be excluded by a pattern +in .hgignore. + Syntax ------