Question

I have used mercurial for some time now and never had any problems using hgignore.
Now I have created a new project using eclipse, which added a .metadata directory.
I seem to be unable to ignore the .metadata.

nils@yavin $ hg status
? .metadata/.mylyn/repositories.xml.zip
? .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.history/37/509db4063df7001f14dbbfe704ff2c4e
...

My .hgignore looks like this:

syntax: regexp
/\.metadata/.*
\.metadata/.*
glob:.metadata/*
glob:.metadata/.mylyn/repositories.xml.zip

As you can see, I tried some things… I even tried adding one file directly, but it did not work.
Is there any magic involved when dealing with dot-directories? Or am I simply stupid today?

Answer 1

Just remove everything and leave:

glob:.metadata/*

The first line syntax:regexp in your .hgignore is making hg treat all subsequent lines as regex, including the one with glob:.metadata/*