Mercurial, ignore only object files for which the source is there

Question

I have quite a few objects (.o) files in my (future) Mercurial repository. I have the source for most of them, but some were downloaded / provided by collaborators and I don't have the sources. Of course, versioning binary files is bad, but I'd like to do that for the few files for which I don't have the sources (given that they will rarely, if ever, be modified, and that on the other hand I cannot regenerate them myself).

Assuming that I have a simple way of determining where .c corresponding to a .o is if it exists (eg always in the same folder), is there an easy way to achieve this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can safely add *.o files to your .hgignore , and then manually hg add specific *.o files to the repository for tracking. Any automatic adding (such as hg addremove , or hg add without an argument) will still ignore *.o files, but you can manually add anything ignored and it will be tracked.