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NAME

        hgignore - syntax for Mercurial ignore files

SYNOPSIS

        The Mercurial system uses a file called .hgignore in the root directory
        of a repository to control its behavior when it finds files that it is
        not currently managing.

DESCRIPTION

        Mercurial ignores every unmanaged file that matches any pattern in an
        ignore file. The patterns in an ignore file do not apply to files
        managed by Mercurial. To control Mercurial’s handling of files that it
        manages, see the hg(1) man page. Look for the "-I" and "-X" options.
 
        In addition, a Mercurial configuration file can point to a set of
        per-user or global ignore files. See the hgrc(5) man page for details
        of how to configure these files. Look for the "ignore" entry in the
        "ui" section.

SYNTAX

        An ignore file is a plain text file consisting of a list of patterns,
        with one pattern per line. Empty lines are skipped. The "#" character
        is treated as a comment character, and the "\" character is treated as
        an escape character.
 
        Mercurial supports several pattern syntaxes. The default syntax used is
        Python/Perl-style regular expressions.
 
        To change the syntax used, use a line of the following form:
 
        syntax: NAME
 
        where NAME is one of the following:
 
        regexp
            Regular expression, Python/Perl syntax.
 
        glob
            Shell-style glob.
        The chosen syntax stays in effect when parsing all patterns that
        follow, until another syntax is selected.
 
        Neither glob nor regexp patterns are rooted. A glob-syntax pattern of
        the form "*.c" will match a file ending in ".c" in any directory, and a
        regexp pattern of the form "\.c$" will do the same. To root a regexp
        pattern, start it with "^".

EXAMPLE

        Here is an example ignore file.
 
            # use glob syntax.
            syntax: glob
 
            *.elc
            *.pyc
            *~
            .*.swp
 
            # switch to regexp syntax.
            syntax: regexp
            ^\.pc/

AUTHOR

        Vadim Gelfer <vadim.gelfer@gmail.com>
 
        Mercurial was written by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>.
        hg(1), hgrc(5)

COPYING

        This manual page is copyright 2006 Vadim Gelfer. Mercurial is copyright
        2005-2007 Matt Mackall. Free use of this software is granted under the
        terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
 
                                   07/05/2007                       HGIGNORE(5)