Mercurial: ignore files if the file with different extension is present

Question

In my mercurial repository I have a lot of different files. For example .org and .tex files. Exporting the .org file generates a .tex file. Normally I do not want to ignore .tex files since these are usually source files. But I am looking for something like:

foo.org present => ignore foo.tex
foo.org absent => do not ignore foo.tex

Answer 1

There is no such option available in Mercurial.

What you could do is create an extension of your own to make some kind of 'hg customstatus' command available. This could be a wrapper around the 'hg status' command that executes the filtering you want.