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Example Visual Studio .hgignore file

In SVN I could add folders and directories to the ingnore list. I would use this feature to ignore all the dll and object file created when building a project.

How do I accomplish the same thing with Kiln/ Tortoisehg

I looked into creating a .hgignore file but Windows 7 would not let me.

I looked into adding entires in the 'Auto Exclude List' in the Commit tab for my repository settings. I tried obj and Web\obj

Any ideas on what I am doing wrong or how to accomplish my goal?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, Windows 7's usually helpful file renaming behavior causes problems here. The easiest way to create a .hgignore file in Windows 7:

1. cd to/my/repo

2. notepad .hgignore Notepad.exe opens and asks if you want to create the file. Say yes.

3. Add the following lines to it:

   syntax:glob
   bin/*
   obj/*

4. Save

Answer 2

You can create a global .hgignore file to rule them all by making a .hgignore file and adding a reference to it in the mercurial.ini file. The details are in this StackOverflow answer.

Some useful exclusions for Visual Studio are outlined at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34784/mercurial-setup-for-visual-studio-2008-projects/2555413#2555413 That answer is more inclusive than the older answers. It will exclude all kinds of stuff you don't want versioned like Resharper folders, builds etc.

Answer 3

In the root of your Mercurial repository, make a file called .hgignore with the following:

syntax: glob
bin
obj

or, if the folders are in a folder called Web in the root of the repository, which it looks like they might be, it would be

syntax: glob
Web/obj
Web/bin

Windows 7 should let you create a .hgignore file; I have a pile of them at work. Can you provide more details on what you mean?

Answer 4

you open a text editor (notepad, notepad2 or notepad++ will do fine), create the ignore list as explained in other answer(s) and save them as ".hgignore". the Windows Explorer doesn't allow you to rename New Text File.txt to .hgignore, but you can do it this way.

Answer 5

syntax: glob *.dll

That works for all dll's in folder and subfolders.

Question, I want to exclude all my /bin/ folders, but these /bin/ folders exists in a whole heap of directories.. Do I have to include all the paths in my ignore file like this?

syntax: glob

/electronicMod1/bin /electronicMod2/bin /electronicMod3/bin

Or can I do something to say exclude all /bin/ folders in one line...

Answer 6

You can use :

\/obj\/
\/bin\/

with regexp syntax

Answer 7

It's case sensitive, so your Silverlight project's Bin and Obj directories will show up. Add:

Bin
Obj

to your .hgignore file to exclude these too.