I've just attempted to create a new mercurial repository using Android Studio (v2.3.2)
I went through the menu option VCS->Import into Version Control->Create Mercurial Repository
The 1st time I did this I was careless and accepted the default folder location for the repo which turned out to be the parent dir of my new project, thus overwriting an existing repo I had there (hopefully I can restore from backup)
The 2nd time I correctly specified the new project dir and I saw that an .hg dir was created in there as expected. Confusingly though, it also created a .gitignore file in the project dir as well.
Does mercurial attempt to read .gitignore files or is this a bug in Android Studio?
Running hg add -n seems to suggest it isn't reading the .gitignore file
I would have expected Android Studio to create an .hgignore file instead?
Is the expectation you have to either rename the .gitignore file to .hgignore and add the syntax: glob line at the top or are you supposed to manually create your own .hgignore file?
I assume it isn't a good idea to simply add all files?