view mercurial/help/hgignore.txt @ 33051:15a79ac823e8

identify: add template support

This is based on a patch proposed last year by Mathias De Maré[1], with a few
changes.

  - Tags and bookmarks are now formatted lists, for more flexible queries.
  - The templater is populated whether or not [-nibtB] is specified.  (Plain
    output is unchanged.)  This seems more consistent with other templated
    commands.
  - The 'id' property is a string, instead of a list.
  - The parents of 'wdir()' have their own list of attributes.

I left 'id' as a string because it seems very useful for generating version
info.  It's also a bit strange because the value and meaning changes depending
on whether or not --debug is passed (short vs full hash), whether the revision
is a merge or not (one hash or two, separated by a '+'), the working directory
or not (node vs p1node), and local or not (remote defaults to tip, and never has
'+').  The equivalent string built with {rev} seems much less useful, and I
couldn't think of a reasonable name, so I left it out.

The discussion seemed to be pointing towards having a list of nodes, with more
than one entry for a merge.  It seems simpler to give the nodes a name, and use
{node} for the actual commit probed, especially now that there is a virtual node
for 'wdir()'.

Yuya mentioned using fm.nested() in that thread, so I did for the parent nodes.
I'm not sure if the plan is to fill in all of the context attributes in these
items, or if these nested items should simply be made {p1node} and {p1rev}.

I used ':' as the tag separator for consistency with {tags} in the log
templater.  Likewise, bookmarks are separated by a space for consistency with
the corresponding log template.

[1] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2016-August/087039.html

Synopsis
========

The Mercurial system uses a file called ``.hgignore`` in the root
directory of a repository to control its behavior when it searches
for files that it is not currently tracking.

Description
===========

The working directory of a Mercurial repository will often contain
files that should not be tracked by Mercurial. These include backup
files created by editors and build products created by compilers.
These files can be ignored by listing them in a ``.hgignore`` file in
the root of the working directory. The ``.hgignore`` file must be
created manually. It is typically put under version control, so that
the settings will propagate to other repositories with push and pull.

An untracked file is ignored if its path relative to the repository
root directory, or any prefix path of that path, is matched against
any pattern in ``.hgignore``.

For example, say we have an untracked file, ``file.c``, at
``a/b/file.c`` inside our repository. Mercurial will ignore ``file.c``
if any pattern in ``.hgignore`` matches ``a/b/file.c``, ``a/b`` or ``a``.

In addition, a Mercurial configuration file can reference a set of
per-user or global ignore files. See the ``ignore`` configuration
key on the ``[ui]`` section of :hg:`help config` for details of how to
configure these files.

To control Mercurial's handling of files that it manages, many
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
======

An ignore file is a plain text file consisting of a list of patterns,
with one pattern per line. Empty lines are skipped. The ``#``
character is treated as a comment character, and the ``\`` character
is treated as an escape character.

Mercurial supports several pattern syntaxes. The default syntax used
is Python/Perl-style regular expressions.

To change the syntax used, use a line of the following form::

  syntax: NAME

where ``NAME`` is one of the following:

``regexp``
  Regular expression, Python/Perl syntax.
``glob``
  Shell-style glob.

The chosen syntax stays in effect when parsing all patterns that
follow, until another syntax is selected.

Neither glob nor regexp patterns are rooted. A glob-syntax pattern of
the form ``*.c`` will match a file ending in ``.c`` in any directory,
and a regexp pattern of the form ``\.c$`` will do the same. To root a
regexp pattern, start it with ``^``.

Subdirectories can have their own .hgignore settings by adding
``subinclude:path/to/subdir/.hgignore`` to the root ``.hgignore``. See
:hg:`help patterns` for details on ``subinclude:`` and ``include:``.

.. note::

  Patterns specified in other than ``.hgignore`` are always rooted.
  Please see :hg:`help patterns` for details.

Example
=======

Here is an example ignore file. ::

  # use glob syntax.
  syntax: glob

  *.elc
  *.pyc
  *~

  # switch to regexp syntax.
  syntax: regexp
  ^\.pc/