doc/hgignore.5.txt

Disable automatic line endings conversion on windows

The rationale behind this is that such conversion implies a particular
situation in which all files in the repo are terminated by only LF. This
is documented nowhere and it bit me sharply when I upgraded.

Furthermore, it works on the assumption that a file containing no NULL
characters are actually a text file. Therefore it cannot guarantee that
no binary file will be harmed in the process.

Currently, if a file already contains CRLF line endings when it is
copied to the working dir from the repo, then the version in the working
dir will be corrupted by an extra CR.

I'm working on a patch that will turn this into a warning. But as a side
effect, committing such a file back will strip it from its CR.

In all case, unrequested data modification can occur under the feet of
the user, which is bad(tm), ihmo.

HGIGNORE(5)
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Vadim Gelfer <[e-mail]>

NAME
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hgignore - syntax for Mercurial ignore files

SYNOPSIS
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The Mercurial system uses a file called .hgignore in the root
directory of a repository to control its behavior when it finds files
that it is not currently managing.

DESCRIPTION
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Mercurial ignores every unmanaged file that matches any pattern in an
ignore file.  The patterns in an ignore file do not apply to files
managed by Mercurial.  To control Mercurial's handling of files that
it manages, see the hg(1) man page.  Look for the "-I" and "-X"
options.

In addition, a Mercurial configuration file can point to a set of
per-user or global ignore files.  See the hgrc(5) man page for details
of how to configure these files.  Look for the "ignore" entry in the
"ui" section.

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 "^".

EXAMPLE
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Here is an example ignore file.

  # use glob syntax.
  syntax: glob

  *.elc
  *.pyc
  *~
  .*.swp

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

AUTHOR
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Vadim Gelfer <[e-mail]>

Mercurial was written by Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>.

SEE ALSO
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hg(1), hgrc(5)

COPYING
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This manual page is copyright 2006 Vadim Gelfer.
Mercurial is copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall.
Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General
Public License (GPL).