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.

#!/bin/sh

cat <<'EOF' > merge
#!/bin/sh
echo merging for `basename $1`
EOF
chmod +x merge
HGMERGE=./merge; export HGMERGE

mkdir A1
cd A1
hg init
echo This is file foo1 > foo
echo This is file bar1 > bar
hg add foo bar
hg commit -m "commit text" -d "0 0"

cd ..
hg clone A1 B1

cd A1
rm bar
hg remove bar
hg commit -m "commit test" -d "0 0"

cd ../B1
echo This is file foo22 > foo
hg commit -m "commit test" -d "0 0"

cd ..
hg clone A1 A2
hg clone B1 B2

cd A1
hg pull ../B1
hg update -m
hg commit -m "commit test" -d "0 0"
echo bar should remain deleted.
hg manifest

cd ../B2
hg pull ../A2
hg update -m
hg commit -m "commit test" -d "0 0"
echo bar should remain deleted.
hg manifest