Use Mercurial for dotfiles

You use source control to keep track of dotfiles in your home directory, right?

Well instead of using git/.gitignore like this:

*
!.vimrc
!.zshrc

and ending up with git info in your fancy zsh shell prompt (even though your only in your home folder) that looks like this:

~ git:(master) $ 

Roll with mercurial for your dotfiles instead so your .hgignore looks like this:

syntax: glob
*

and your home folder shell prompt will be nice and clean like this:

~ $ 

Any files you explicitly add to your mercurial repo with hg add <filename> will add the file to your repo even if .hgignore says to ignore it.