hgignore: help ignoring all files but certain ones

Question

I need an .hgdontignore file :-) to include certain files and exclude everything else in a directory. Basically I want to include only the .jar files in a particular directo

Answer 1

The answer from Michael is a fine one, but another option is to just exclude:

foo/bar/**

and then manually add the .jar files. You can always add files that are excluded by an ignore rule and it overrides the ignore. You just have to remember to add any jars you create in the future.