You can keep multiple ignore files. Then .hgignore can be shared by the whole team (if you're working in C, you're going to ignore .o files, for instance, and s

You can keep multiple ignore files. Then .hgignore can be shared by the whole team (if you're working in C, you're going to ignore .o files, for instance, and so will everyone else). Look up the ui.ignore hgrc option to add more files (presumably one of which doesn't sync).