https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6082
Bug ID: 6082
Summary: Support ! pattern negation in .hgignore as for Git
Product: Mercurial
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: feature
Priority: wish
Component: Mercurial
Assignee: bugzi...@mercurial-scm.org
Reporter: pierre.aug...@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
CC: mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org
It's difficult to work with hg-git for some Git repositories (example
https://github.com/pyenv) because they use in their .gitignore the ! pattern.
From the Git documentation:
"An optional prefix "!" which negates the pattern; any matching file excluded
by a previous pattern will become included again. It is not possible to
re-include a file if a parent directory of that file is excluded. Git doesn’t
list excluded directories for performance reasons, so any patterns on contained
files have no effect, no matter where they are defined. "
For a repository using such pattern, one gets: `.gitignore: unsupported ignore
pattern '!/.gitignore'`
There is an issue in the hg-git repository on Bitbucket
(https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git/issues/190/add-support-for-gitignore-pattern-negation),
but it seems that it should be solved at the Mercurial level.
Note that Git does something reasonable in terms of performance ("It is not
possible to re-include a file if a parent directory of that file is excluded.
Git doesn’t list excluded directories for performance reasons, so any patterns
on contained files have no effect, no matter where they are defined.") so
Mercurial could do the same?
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