There may be cases where we want to ignore certain files before committing in mercurial distributed revision control system. We can ignore files using hgignore file.
- hgignore file resides in the root folder.
- Open the file
- Right - click on file and open (CTRL + SHIFT + T). OR
- Take terminal from Repository tab and type
- thg hgignore
- If opened from the terminal
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| hgignore window |
- Add file path or file extensions and add in the file.
- It will take into effect after first commit.
- After adding the restriction rules you can add hgignore file using
- hg add .hgignore
Tortoise workbench ignore certain files with hgignore