[Python-Dev] .hgignore including site-packages and scripts directories?

Wed Mar 30 03:09:16 CEST 2011

On 2011年3月30日 11:11:45 +1100, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> I'm wondering if it is a reasonable idea to have .hgignore exclude all 
> files from 'Lib/site-packages' and 'Scripts'? As I install packages 
> into my source builds, a 'hg status' lists *many* files in both those 
> directories forcing me to scroll up a number of pages to see files which 
> have actually changed.

I hardly ever install things into my source build. The first time I've
done that, in fact, was to run coverage. The solution is to add such
directories and/or files to your personal ignore list See the 'ignore'
entry under 'ui' in the hgrc documentation.
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R. David Murray http://www.bitdance.com