hg add -X not working

Question

I'd like to hg add excluding files that begin with ._, or even better exclude all hidden files.

It's not working, it's just completely ignoring my -X option.

I tried the following:

hg add -n -X '._*'
hg add -n -X '*._*'

and just to be sure also:

hg add -n -X '*.*'

nothing. It's just as if I didn't -X at all.

I've tried both with hg 1.4.3 and hg 1.0.1

Answer 1

(This works on Windows and Mercurial 1.5.3; things may be different for Unix if that's what you're using).

You have the file spec. in single quotes; it should be double quotes:

hg add -X "._*"

Another way would be to add an entry to your .hgignore file, for example:

 syntax: glob
 ._*