Comments on: .hgignore for Mac OS X applications

By: Peter Hosey

Peter Hosey — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:11:57 +0000

Till: Read Andrew's comment, and use a regex pattern:

syntax: regexp

.*/te?mp/.*

By: Till

Till — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:40:35 +0000

I would like to use only one ignore file: ~/.hgignore. But then again I'd like it to ignore all files that have a tmp or temp soewhere within there path. Any idea how to achieve this?

By: Peter Hosey

Peter Hosey — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:46:14 +0000

Andrew: Sure, but then each developer has to repeat that process. If you version .hgignore instead, they get its benefits automatically, from the moment they clone your repository.

Of course, this way, you have to do it for each new project. It's a trade-off. I think this way results in less work over the long term.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:34:23 +0000

According to hgrc(5), you can put

[ui]
ignore = ~/.htignore

in your ~/.hgrc, and have this apply to all of your projects automatically.

By: Peter Hosey

Peter Hosey — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:37:57 +0000

Mark: Having a .hgignore doesn't prevent you from versioning files that match an ignore pattern. If you have a default.pbxuser that you want to version, go right ahead and do that—nothing's stopping you.

As for .perspectivev3: Yup, you're right. I'm still developing primarily on Tiger, so I forgot about that. I'll update the file and the post with it.

By: Mark Grimes

Mark Grimes — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:05:05 +0000

I use git, so not sure if syntax is the same but you might want to exclude default.pbxuser from your all inclusive *.pbxuser
Also shouldn't it be *.perspectivev3 these days?