How to hgignore all subfolders but not the file in a folder?

Question

I am looking to use nuget without committing the packages. I want to ignore in mercurial all packages subfolder that are located in the /packages/ folder, but I do not want to exclude the repositories.config file located in the /packages/ folder.

How should I write the exclusion regex to do that?

Barragan

Answer 1

Can't you just do this:

hg add packages/repositories.config

And then have this in your .hgignore file

syntax: glob

packages

?

Lashawn

The obvious is always hidden from sight. Thank you – Barragan

Does that not ignore any subsequent changes to repositories.config? – Aegis

@MattHamilton it doesn't ignore subsequent changes. .hgignore is only about not showing unadded files. Once a file has been added the .hgignore has no effect at all. – Wholesale

Answer 2

syntax: regexp
packages/(?!repositories.config).*

[source]

Necessarily

Answer 3

For ignore all jpg files with subdirectories in folder images:

^images/.*\.jpg$

Pimentel