[Python-Dev] .hgignore including site-packages and scripts directories?

[Mark Hammond]

On 30/03/2011 12:09 PM, R. David Murray wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:11:45 +1100, Mark Hammond<mhammond at skippinet.com.au>  wrote:
>> I'm wondering if it is a reasonable idea to have .hgignore exclude all
>> files from 'Lib/site-packages' and 'Scripts'?  As I install packages
>> into my source builds, a 'hg status' lists *many* files in both those
>> directories forcing me to scroll up a number of pages to see files which
>> have actually changed.
>
> I hardly ever install things into my source build.  The first time I've
> done that, in fact, was to run coverage.

Windows doesn't really have an install process integrated into the 
build, so it is probably fairly common there.

> The solution is to add such
> directories and/or files to your personal ignore list See the 'ignore'
> entry under 'ui' in the hgrc documentation.

Yeah - but I was wondering if it could be made more convenient by 
default given the downside seems quite small...

Mark