title: Ignoring tracked items from the repository
body: <p>I have a <code>mercurial</code> project of my website. I have <code>symlinked</code> (<code>Mac OS X aliases</code>) lot of files from here `to elsewhere. I made a mistake to add and commit all the aliases in my repository too. </p>
  
  <p>However now I want to keep them untracked, so I added an entry in my <code>.hgignore</code> -</p>
  
  <pre><code>syntax:glob
  
  *.pdf
  *alias
  
  [... snipped ...]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I still see them when I do <code>hg status</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>$ hg status
  
  M documents/.../x alias
  M documents/.../y alias
  M documents/.../z alias
  
  [... snipped ...]
  </code></pre>