Is it possible to use rooted glob patterns in .hgignore?
hgignore, mercurial
Solution
You cannot root your glob patterns — this is documented in the manpage. You can, however, switch back and forth between the glob and regexp syntax:
syntax: glob
*.pyc
syntax: regexp
^static/
syntax: glob
*~
Problem
I prefer to use glob syntax in my .hgignore files, but now I need to create a rooted pattern. I want to ignore my /static directory, but not /assets/static. The line ``` static/ ``` ignores both. Is there a way to do rooted glob patterns? If not, I can switch to regex, but glob just seems so much more natural for matching pathnames.