Ignoring the change in a file

[Martin Geisler]

jihocech <jihocech at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello, I've got several files in my web application (web.config and
> settings.xml in my case) that I need to change the contents of based
> on the local machine I am installed on. For example, one of the things
> in settings.xml is the path on the local machine to store attachments
> uploaded through the application.
>
> I'm looking for a way to tell mercurial that changes to a particular
> file aren't to be committed when I do my commits. I would like ask you
> if Mercurial has this feature? Thanks you in advance.

After we talked about this on IRC, I came to think of another solution:
you can use the -X option to 'hg commit' to exclude the files in
question. You'll have to do this on every commit or you can add it to
the [defaults] section of your hgrc file:

  http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html#defaults

I've not tried such a workflow myself -- please give it a try and let us
know if it works well.

-- 
Martin Geisler

VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient
SMPC (Secure Multiparty Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.
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