Implementation of per-user .hgignore. Reference: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue166 If the [ui] section of .hgrc contains keys like "ignore" or "ignore.something", the values corresponding to these keys are treated as per-user hgignore files. These hgignore files apply to all repositories used by that user.

#!/bin/sh

hg init
echo "nothing" > a
hg add a
hg commit -m ancestor -d "1000000 0"
echo "something" > a
hg commit -m branch1 -d "1000000 0"
hg co 0
echo "something else" > a
hg commit -m branch2 -d "1000000 0"
HGMERGE=merge; export HGMERGE
hg up -m 1
hg id
egrep -v ">>>|<<<" a
hg status