Question

I’m using TortoiseHg to commit files to my repository; however, it shows all the .pyc files by default. Is it possible to exclude these files from being shown?

Answer 1

You can have Mercurial ignore those files by writing something like the following in your .hgignore file (which should be placed at the same level as your .hg directory):

# use glob syntax.
syntax: glob

*.pyc

After doing that you’ll want to remove the existing .pyc files (using the hg rem command).