Way to include one .hgignore file in another

Question

Is there any way to include one .hgignore file in another?

e.g., say I have a common .hgignore file in a Mercurial subrepository (named hg-common) that ignores files like desktop.ini & .DS_Store, and I want to include that file in every project that I create. In my .hgignore of my project1 repo, I want to do something like:

syntax: include hg-common/.hgignore

with syntax: include being my imaginary syntax for including the specified file.

Ravage

Answer 1

I found the correct syntax:

include:hg-common/.hgignore

Ravage

Why not use ~/.hgignore_global? – Compony

@Compony because, I want the ignores in a subrepo to force all users of the repo to ignore the same files. – Ravage

Answer 2

You can use either include or subinclude:

include:hg-common/.hgignore
subinclude:hg-common/.hgignore

The difference is that subinclude confines its effect to the hg-common directory, whereas include applies the patterns globally.

Tennant