[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54216] Additional items for .hgignore

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #54216 (project octave):

I don't know about others, but my opinion is that the project hgignore file
should include files patterns that are created directly by the project build
system. Any files that are created by a user's favorite editor or IDE should
be in the user's own personal hgignore file.

So I have no problem adding hgignore rules for HG-ID and *.Plo and *.Po, but
the cmake and idea files should not be included.

The HG-ID pattern should be '^HG-ID$' since the file only exists at the top
level.

In case you aren't aware, the recommended way to build Octave is to create an
empty build directory, and build with


$ ../configure  # (or /path/to/configure)
$ make
$ make check
$ make install


With this approach, most of the build products are not mixed with the source
directories and 'hg status' does not report as many untracked files.

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