Switch to new syntax for .hgignore files. Here is the new syntax, in summary. Trailing white space is dropped. The escape character is "\". Comments start with #. Empty lines are skipped. Lines can be of the following formats: syntax: regexp # defaults following lines to non-rooted regexps syntax: glob # defaults following lines to non-rooted globs re:pattern # non-rooted regular expression glob:pattern # non-rooted glob pattern # pattern of the current default type The default pattern type is regexp, which is completely backwards compatible with the old hgignore syntax. In the dirstate class, the ignore method has been reworked to be based on the util.matcher function, by way of a new dirstate.hgignore method.

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Mercurial's documentation is currently kept in ASCIIDOC format, which

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is a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit. It's also

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convertible to a variety of other formats including standard UNIX man

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page format and HTML.

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To do this, you'll need to install ASCIIDOC:

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 http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/

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To generate the man page:

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 asciidoc -d manpage -b docbook hg.1.txt

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 xmlto man hg.1.xml

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To display:

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 groff -mandoc -Tascii hg.1 | more

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To create the html page (without stylesheets):

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 asciidoc -b html hg.1.txt