Question

I have some files I’d like to add to have them as a “backup”. The thing is, I’d like to commit them only one time, and then, I’d like for Mercurial to don’t track them anymore ( don’t notify me if they’re changed, and don’t commit them on other commits ).

Basically, something like this:

hg add my_folder
hg commit -m "added first version of my_folder"

Then, after a while, the contents of that folder might change. And if I commit other files, the new version of that folder will get commited as well. This is something I’d like to avoid. Is it possible, without specifying directly which files I want to commit?

Answer 1

I’ve never seen any option in Mercurial that might allow that… but why not simply copy them elsewhere ?

I mean, what’s the point of using a Version Tracking System if you don’t need versioning on these items anyway ?

We ran into a similar case with binary documents (‘.doc’, images, etc…) and finally decided to commit them on a separate repository, dedicated to those.