document updated 13 years ago, on Jan 14, 2011

What if you want to checkin only specific files within a directory, but not everything (say, have it ignore binary files)?

first, a cautionary warning:
a common way to do this is to .hgignore everything, and then add back specific exceptions with `hg add`. [1] [2] [3]
- additionally, `hg add` has the flags --include and --exclude that let you specify patterns
- you don't even necessarily have to do the .hgignore thing, as long as you remember to never do a plain `hg add`
if you wanted to make a script that uses more complex rules to decide what to `hg add`, you can put it in the "pre-commit" hook [1] [2]
note that there IS an `hg forget`, however, there are some caveats:
- some explanations
- some explanations
- Mercurial will remove that file when your or anyone else updates across that revision
- `hg forget` versus .hgignore