avoiding scans of whole directory tree

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 28.05.2008 14:22, Jamie Webb wrote:
> I'm talking about a slightly different thing. In the absence of
> inotify, 'hg edit' might help if the manifest is truly huge. But hg is
> worse than that: it slows right down if the workspace is large, even if
> the manifest is small.

So, your use case is a large tree inside the working dir, of which you want
to track only a small number of files?

And .hgignore doesn't help for this?