Tortoise workbench ignore certain files with hgignore

There may be cases where we want to ignore certain files before committing in mercurial distributed revision control system. We can ignore files using hgignore file.

• hgignore file resides in the root folder.
• Open the file
• Right - click on file and open (CTRL + SHIFT + T). OR
•  Take terminal from Repository tab and type 
• thg hgignore

•  If opened from the terminal

 

hgignore window

•  Add file path or file extensions and add in the file.
• It will take into effect after first commit.
• After adding the restriction rules you can add hgignore file using
• hg add .hgignore