[Python-Dev] .hgignore including site-packages and scripts directories? (original) (raw)

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Wed Mar 30 03:17:05 CEST 2011

On 30/03/2011 12:09 PM, R. David Murray wrote:

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 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.

Windows doesn't really have an install process integrated into the build, so it is probably fairly common there.

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.

Yeah - but I was wondering if it could be made more convenient by default given the downside seems quite small...

Mark

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