Mercurial: Globally Ignore Files

Question

I know about .hgignore and how I can ignore files on a project-by-project basis. I want to ignore stuff for all Mercurial repositories.

Is there something I can stick in .hgrc? Or put a .hgignore in my $HOME path (I tried that already but maybe I did something wrong).

Joel B Fant · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-10T22:44:44.590

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You can add a path to a global or per-user ignore file in the [ui] section of your global/user hgrc or Mercurial.ini:

[ui]
ignore = ~/.hgignore

On Windows:

[ui]
ignore = %USERPROFILE%\.hgignore

edited Jul 10 '11 at 22:44

answered Jul 10 '11 at 22:39

Joel B Fant

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The tilda will work on window too -- mercurial interpolates it to USERPROFILE for you. – Ry4an Brase Jul 11 '11 at 03:03
@zerkms: Seems that site expired almost a month ago. :/ – Joel B Fant Oct 19 '11 at 14:23
@Joel B Fant: it's sad :-( there were a lot of good patterns for different kind of projects – zerkms Oct 19 '11 at 21:09
Just FYI, `~/.hgignore` seems to work on Windows as well, at least with Windows 7 mercurial version 3.0.2. It works the same as the `%USERPROFILE%` macro listed in the answer. – brianmearns Apr 27 '15 at 12:49

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 28 '15 at 16:04

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In powershell, you can get to your global files like this.

PS> notepad $env:userprofile/mercurial.ini
...
[ui]
ignore = %USERPROFILE%\.hgignore
...

PS> notepad $env:userprofile/.hgignore
/bin/
/obj/

answered May 28 '15 at 16:04

uffe hellum

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