Including other .hgignore files via wildcards

Yuya Nishihara yuya at tcha.org
Tue Jun 5 09:37:52 EDT 2018


On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 02:17:08 -0400, Ross Goldberg wrote:
> I'd like to other .hgignore files via wildcards, like using:
> 
> include:hgignore//**/*.hgignore
> 
> to include all files whose name ends with .hgignore in hgignore/ or any of
> its descendent directories.
> 
> Is this possible?

No.

> Would the Mercurial devs be open to modifications to enable this?

It scares me, but I have no particular example that could cause problems.


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