Comments on: Using Mercurial on your home directory

By: Peter Manis

Peter Manis — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:14:04 +0000

I addressed this in my post about using git on my home directory.

By: Jonny Dee

Jonny Dee — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:03:43 +0000

If you need to version empty directories, too, you can use the tool MarkEmptyDirs which creates/deletes placeholder files for empty folders automatically. (Note that Mercurial is not able to version empty directories.)

By: Clark

Clark — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:46:01 +0000

Why not just ignore everything in the home directory with a glob pattern?

.hgignore
—
syntax: glob
*

This would ignore every file unless you explicitly add it.

This would prevent you from creating a large file, and accidentally forgetting to add it to .hgignore. However, there’s an extra step for every file you want to put under version control.

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Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:57:23 +0000

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