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Is there a command line way to ignore an entire subfolder in my repository?

flag	asked Mar 23 2010 at 19:11 unknown (google) 73●3

See also kiln.stackexchange.com/questions/707/… – CADbloke Apr 28 2010 at 22:48

Anton Moiseev · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-23 20:00:42Z UTC

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Could you specify what you mean by command line way. If you just need to ignore a subfolder in your repository you should add an entry to your .hgignore file, for example if I need to ignore folders bin\ and obj\ I add following lines to my .hgignore file:

syntax: glob
obj/*
bin/*

Detailed information you can find here: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgignore.5.html

edited Mar 23 2010 at 20:00

answered Mar 23 2010 at 19:53

Anton Moiseev
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	re: specify - just wondering if there was an 'hg ignore /myfolder/' command. Creating an .hgignore file is easy enough I suppose, just didn't want to go to the trouble, if I was overlooking a built in hg command. Thanks! :-) – unknown (google) Mar 23 2010 at 20:45
	I blindly followed kiln's getting started instructions and committed + pushed all the project's files/folders...including the ones I want to ignore. Now that I have added the `.hgignore` file I can't figure out how to get rid of the files I've already committed to the repo. – David Murdoch Mar 1 2011 at 13:34
	Hi, David. You should explicitly exclude them from tracking. You can do it several ways: 1) if you want to permanently remove those files from your working directory and future Mercurial revisions, you should call `hg remove <path_to_file>` for each of those files; 2) if you only want to exclude those files from future revision but leave them in your working directory you should call `hg forget <path_to_file>` for each of them. – Anton Moiseev Mar 1 2011 at 20:29

Benjamin Pollack · Answer 2 · 2010-03-23 19:48:15Z UTC

Make a file called .hgignore in the root of your repository (if it doesn't already exist) and add the line:

syntax: glob
path/to/subfolder

That's it. Your subfolder is now ignored.

Note that Mercurial will not ignore files that are already checked in. You'll need to hg forget them first.

How do I ignore a subfolder?

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