Back in July, Jeremy wrote:
corvid wrote:
Jeremy wrote:
The problem was that .hgignore contains a line "dillo", which ignores every file with the string "dillo" anywhere in its path. Many other lines in .hgignore are similarly inappropriate. It looks as though these lines were written to be interpreted as glob-style patterns, but in fact mercurial interprets every line as a regexp.
Looking in http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgignore.5.html it seems that specifying "syntax: glob" is also a possibility.
Yes, glob syntax might well be better, but either way the current .hgignore is not working as it should and could do with fixing.
Just noticed this thread while cleaning out old mail, and we should come to some kind of decision on this.