hg - Ignore directory at root only

Question

In my project's .hgignore, I want to exclude /static/ (i.e., the static folder at the root of the directory), but not /templates/static/. How would I configure .hgignore to allow this?

Answer 1

You can include syntax: regexp at the beginning of .hgignore and then use perl regex syntax to root a directory by using ^. So just ^static should do the work.

Answer 2

As of Mercurial 4.9, you can use syntax: rootglob to insert rooted glob patterns.

New rootglob: filename pattern for a glob that is rooted at the root of the repository. See hg help patterns and hg help hgignore for details