ignoring folders in mercurial

Question

Caveat: I try all the posibilities listed here: How can I ignore everything under a folder in Mercurial.
None works as I hope.

I want to ignore every thing under the folder test. But not ignore srcProject\test\TestManager

I try

syntax: glob test/** 

And it ignores test and srcProject\test\TestManager

With:

syntax: regexp ^/test/ 

It's the same thing.

Also with:

syntax: regexp test\\* 

I have install TortoiseHG 0.4rc2 with Mercurial-626cb86a6523+tortoisehg, Python-2.5.1, PyGTK-2.10.6, GTK-2.10.11 in Windows

Answer 1

Try it without the slash after the caret in the regexp version.

^test/ 

Here's a test:

~$ mkdir hg-folder-ignore ~$ cd hg-folder-ignore ~/hg-folder-ignore$ echo '^test/' > .hgignore ~/hg-folder-ignore$ hg init ~/hg-folder-ignore$ mkdir test ~/hg-folder-ignore$ touch test/ignoreme ~/hg-folder-ignore$ mkdir -p srcProject/test/TestManager ~/hg-folder-ignore$ touch srcProject/test/TestManager/dont-ignore ~/hg-folder-ignore$ hg stat ? .hgignore ? srcProject/test/TestManager/dont-ignore 

Notice that ignoreme isn't showing up and dont-ignore is.

Answer 2

Both cases worked for me (on linux and windows):

syntax: regexp ^backup/     #root folder nbproject/   #any folder 

or

syntax: glob ./backup/*   #root folder nbproject/*  #any folder 

However, it wasn't before I added a link to .hgignore file to .hgrc file in my repo:

[ui] ignore = .hg/.hgignore 

Also worth mentioning that mercurial ignores files that it is not currently tracking, which are those added before you configured it to ignore them. So, don't be put off by hg status saying some filed are M (modified) or ! (missing) in the folders that you have just added to the ignore list!