Mercurial hg ignore does not work properly
hgignore, mercurial
Solution
You wrote:
"M src/project.xml"
which means that `src/project.xml` is under version control. A file already under version control cannot be ignored! The `.hgignore` file is for ignoring files that are untracked (status will show a "?").
You have two solutions to ignore your file:
- You can either "`hg forget`" the file, the opposite of "`hg add`" (i.e., telling Mercurial not to track this file anymore), or
You can use the ”`-X`” option as a default for `status/diff/commit` in your `.hg/hgrc` configuration file, e.g.,
[defaults] status = -X `<file>` diff = -X `<file>` commit = -X `<file>`
which will tell hg not to include this file in the use of status, diff, and commit.
Problem
Situation ``` $ cat .hgignore .hgignore $ hg status M file1 M file2 M src/project.xml ``` I don't want to track the `project.xml` so I run ``` echo "project.xml" >> .hgignore ``` and the result is ``` $ cat .hgignore .hgignore project.xml $ hg status M .hgignore M file1 M file2 M src/project.xml ``` So the `.hgignore` is now as modified even though it shouldn't be tracked and nothing happend with the `project.xml`. What does this mean?