Proposed Patch to hgignore
Peter Arrenbrecht
peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 13:42:42 CST 2008
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:57 AM, <pistazienfresser at web.de> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I would like to propose an addition to the syntax of the .hgignore file,
> namely, the possibility to _not_ ignore files matching a wildcard or regular
> expression.
>
> This change is similar to the .gitignore semantics, and is very helpful for
> example to track changes to varios dotfiles.
>
> one would use for example
>
> syntax: glob
> *
> !^.bashrc
> !^.emacs
> !^.emacs.d/*
> !^.muttrc
>
> to only track .bashrc, .muttrc, .emacs and everything below .emacs.d
>
> Implementing this behaviour with the current syntax might be possible but would
> involve complicated regular expressions.
+1 on the feature.
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