How can I ignore everything under a folder in Mercurial

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Xian picture Xian · Oct 31, 2008 · Viewed 67.4k times · Source

I am looking for an expression for the .hgignore file, to ignore all files beneath a specified folder.

eg: I would like to ignore all files and folders beneath bin

Actually any advice on how the expressions are formed would be great

Answer

Ry4an Brase picture Ry4an Brase · Oct 31, 2008

Alternately:

syntax: glob
bin/**

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