I'm trying to .gitignore emacs temporary/autosave files. I'm using...
\.\#.*
in my .gitignore.
But git add -A run in a subfolder is still giving me:
# new file: .#make_collections.py
# new file: .#norm_collections.py
# new file: make_collections.py
# new file: norm_collections.py
even though
\.\#.*
is clearly getting the right file names and not the wrong ones when I test it with a regex tester.
You can also instruct emacs to save the autosave files in a different directory altogether by setting the variable auto-save-file-name-transforms, I have this in my init file
(setq auto-save-file-name-transforms
`((".*" ,(concat user-emacs-directory "auto-save/") t)))
This instructs emacs to store the auto-saves inside the auto-save folder in the user-emacs-directory (usually ~/.emacs.d).
To save backup files in a different directory set the variable backup-directory-alist, the following will save backup files inside backups folder in the user-emacs-directory
(setq backup-directory-alist
`(("." . ,(expand-file-name
(concat user-emacs-directory "backups")))))
gitignore doesn't use regular expressions. Instead it uses shell glob patters. The man page tells you two things important for this situation:
Otherwise, Git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable for
consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag.
and
A line starting with # serves as a comment. Put a backslash ("\")
in front of the first hash for patterns that begin with a hash.
This means that the pattern you want to use is simply .#*.
Now the second pattern that matov mentioned, #*, doesn't do anything as it is treated as a comment by git. Hence me quoting that second sentence from the man page.
Emacs autosave files are ignored with
\#*#
files are ignored with:
\#*\#
.\#*
If you want an easy way to ignore files, you can also use http://www.gitignore.io which helps create useful .gitignore files for your project.
Here is the emacs template: https://www.gitignore.io/api/emacs
There is also documentation demonstrating how to run gi from the command line.
To suppress the temporary Emacs files appearing on git status globally, you can do the following:
Configure git to use a global excludesfile
Since this is a common problem, git has a specific solution to that:
Patterns which a user wants Git to ignore in all situations (e.g., backup or temporary files generated by the user’s editor of choice) generally go into a file specified by core.excludesFile in the user’s ~/.gitconfig
git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global
Create the respective file
cd
touch .gitignore_global
Paste the following template into the file
# -*- mode: gitignore; -*-
*~
\#*\#
/.emacs.desktop
/.emacs.desktop.lock
*.elc
auto-save-list
tramp
.\#*
# Org-mode
.org-id-locations
*_archive
# flymake-mode
*_flymake.*
# eshell files
/eshell/history
/eshell/lastdir
# elpa packages
/elpa/
# reftex files
.rel
# AUCTeX auto folder
/auto/
# cask packages
.cask/
dist/
# Flycheck
flycheck_*.el
# server auth directory
/server/
# projectiles files
.projectile
# directory configuration
.dir-locals.el
# network security
/network-security.data
Watch git do its magic! :)
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Using .gitignore, is there a way to ignore a directory if it contains a certain file (or directory)?
This would be something like look-ahead assertions, though my use case is a little different: I want to ignore Mercurial repos in my project, to keep from accidentally committing them as part of the project. That is, I want to ignore all directories containing .hg, not just .hg itself.
I can work around this using the answer from this question, adding each directory name to .gitignore, but I'd like to make it more general if I can.
There is no way to do it beside adding all of them to your .gitignore file.
What you can do it to write a scipt which append all the desired paths to your .gitignore.
The content of .gitignore is alist of paths so git can be configured based upon content.
Each line in a gitignore file specifies a pattern
I'm using ag to search a git repo. It doesn't find matches under my node_modules subdirectory. Why not, and how can I control this behavior?
It turns out that ag honors the contents of the .gitignore file by default. So if node_modules is in .gitignore, ag won't search it. This is all sensible behavior, but difficult to debug if you aren't expecting it. Hopefully this post will help.
There's a good summary at the end of man ag:
IGNORING FILES
By default, ag will ignore files whose names match patterns in .gitig-
nore, .hgignore, or .agignore. These files can be anywhere in the
directories being searched. Ag also ignores files matched by the
svn:ignore property if svn --version is 1.6 or older. Finally, ag looks
in $HOME/.agignore for ignore patterns. Binary files are ignored by
default as well.
If you want to ignore .gitignore, .hgignore, and svn:ignore, but still
take .agignore into account, use -U.
Use the -t option to search all text files; -a to search all files; and
-u to search all, including hidden files.
For my purposes ag -t seems to work well.
I did a ctags -R on my project which is in c++, in the directory /project/ntopng. Now, when I start cscope using cscope -R and search for main.cpp, it opens up. But, when I hit ctrl-] on #include "ntop-includes.h" in main.cpp, the error message is tag not found. The header file is inside a sub-directory in /project/ntopng/include. But, ctags -R is recursive so why is it that I am getting an error? I am using Ubuntu 12.04 with the latest version of ctags and cscope. Thank You.
I have given the below answer for Ubuntu 12.04
1. Open any file with vim
2. type :echo &tags ,It will show what path vim is using for tags file.
If it is not the expected tag file path type:
:set tags=path_to_your_tag_file (ex /project/ntopng/tags)
Remember it is valid for the current session only, Now if permanent changes required there are two options.
For All users (requires root privileges) --
1. cd /etc/vim
2. vim vimrc
3. Go to end and add set tags+=tags;path_to_your_tag_file
For the individual user:
1. cd ~
2. vim .vimrc (This file may not exists in that case newly created)
3. set tags+=tags;path_to_your_tag_file
Let me know if it worked for you.
Been fighting with Mercurial's .hgignore for a while under Windows.
I have a folder named Upload which is currently empty. I do want it tracked so I added a .empty file in it which work fine. I want this so that new developers doing an hg clone get the Upload document required for the application.
Thing is I never want the folder to be populated with anything on the source control itself (test uploads from a development machine).
Example:
If I add Public/image.jpg it wouldn't be tracked.
Additionally I would like it for sub directory to be tracked. So if developer adds
Upload/users/.empty I would like this to be tracked.
Is this possible with regex voodoo?
In mercurial (and unlike in svn and cvs) adding a file overrides the .hgignore file, so you can put this in your .hgignore:
^Uploads/.*
and your Upload/.empty that you added will still be created on update and thus they'll get the directory.
Getting it to ignore files in upload but not not ignore files in subdirectories in Upload could be done with:
^Uploads/[^/]*$
which says: ignore anything that Starts with Uploads and has no further slashes in it.
Really though, you should be creating Uploads with your build/install/configure script when possible, not with the clone/update.
Try putting
Uploads/(?!.empty)
in .hgignore in the root of the repository
Try
^Uploads\b.*/(?!\.empty)[^/]+$
This should match any path starting with Uploads where the text after the last slash (=filename) is anything but .empty.
Caveat:
I try all the posibilities listed here: How can I ignore everything under a folder in Mercurial.
None works as I hope.
I want to ignore every thing under the folder test. But not ignore srcProject\test\TestManager
I try
syntax: glob
test/**
And it ignores test and srcProject\test\TestManager
With:
syntax: regexp
^/test/
It's the same thing.
Also with:
syntax: regexp
test\\*
I have install TortoiseHG 0.4rc2 with Mercurial-626cb86a6523+tortoisehg, Python-2.5.1, PyGTK-2.10.6, GTK-2.10.11 in Windows
Try it without the slash after the caret in the regexp version.
^test/
Here's a test:
~$ mkdir hg-folder-ignore
~$ cd hg-folder-ignore
~/hg-folder-ignore$ echo '^test/' > .hgignore
~/hg-folder-ignore$ hg init
~/hg-folder-ignore$ mkdir test
~/hg-folder-ignore$ touch test/ignoreme
~/hg-folder-ignore$ mkdir -p srcProject/test/TestManager
~/hg-folder-ignore$ touch srcProject/test/TestManager/dont-ignore
~/hg-folder-ignore$ hg stat
? .hgignore
? srcProject/test/TestManager/dont-ignore
Notice that ignoreme isn't showing up and dont-ignore is.
Both cases worked for me (on linux and windows):
syntax: regexp
^backup/ #root folder
nbproject/ #any folder
or
syntax: glob
./backup/* #root folder
nbproject/* #any folder
However, it wasn't before I added a link to .hgignore file to .hgrc file in my repo:
[ui]
ignore = .hg/.hgignore
Also worth mentioning that mercurial ignores files that it is not currently tracking, which are those added before you configured it to ignore them. So, don't be put off by hg status saying some filed are M (modified) or ! (missing) in the folders that you have just added to the ignore list!
You can use zero-width negative look-ahead and look-behind assertions to specify that you want to ignore test only when it's not preceded by srcProject and not followed by TestManager:
syntax: regexp
(?<!srcProject\\)test\\(?!TestManager)
Mercurial uses Python regular expressions, so you can find more info on zero-width assertions in the Python docs: https://docs.python.org/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax
Create .hgignore file under root directory of the repository
Now add the following contents in the file .
syntax: glob
bin/**
*.DS_Store
This will remove the bin directory and all the *.DS_Store files from the repository