Mercurial > hg
changeset 9182:3a319bc8906d
hgignore.5: expanded description
- explain that .hgignore must be created manually
- hint that it is typically put under revision control
| author | Martin Geisler <mg@lazybytes.net> |
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| date | Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:06:32 +0200 |
| parents | 41bc92142f06 |
| children | d0225fa2f6c4 d9a2e6327949 52de439b8d99 |
| files | doc/hgignore.5.txt |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/doc/hgignore.5.txt Mon Jul 20 19:15:44 2009 -0500 +++ b/doc/hgignore.5.txt Tue Jul 21 12:06:32 2009 +0200 @@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ 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`.