how to omit a folder from mercurial versioning in netbeans?

Question

i'm using netbeans with the built-in mercurial support and want to omit a sub-folder from versioning.

how do i do that?

thanks!

Answer 1

I am not sure if there is a way to do this directly from Netbeans, but you can add a .hgignore file in the root of your repository to specify what files or folders to ignore. The following links will provide all the information you might need:

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgignore.5.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/254002/how-can-i-ignore-everything-under-a-folder-in-mercurial

http://kiln.stackexchange.com/questions/707/how-to-exclude-bin-and-obj-folders