Reverted changeset e254bcbfe636e97301f76c7da241b07be14f3d36 Volker Kleinfeld agreed that this is dead code and tried to fix a problem which was already fixed somewhere else.

\.elc$
\.orig$
\.rej$
~$
\.so$
\.pyc$
\.swp$
\.prof$
^tests/.*\.err$
^build/
^dist/
^doc/.*\.[0-9](\.(x|ht)ml)?$
^MANIFEST$
^\.pc/
^patches/
^mercurial/__version__.py$