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

set -e

mkdir test
cd test
echo foo>foo
hg init
hg addremove
hg commit -m "1"
hg verify

hg clone . ../branch
cd ../branch
hg co
echo bar>>foo
hg commit -m "2"

cd ../test
hg pull ../branch
hg verify
hg co
cat foo
hg manifest