Windows fails to pick up my .hgignore file. I'm running Mercurial from the command line, and "hg status" shows lots of files in the ignored directories.
The .hgignore file looks like this (there's no whitespace at the start of the file, or at the start of each line). I've put it in the root directory of the repository.
\.pyc$
\.pyo$
\.DS_Store
\.Python
\.installed.cfg
^bin$
^build$
^develop-eggs$
^eggs$
^include$
^lib$
^parts$
^pip-log.txt$
^web/localsettings.py$
I've tried saving the file in ANSI and UTF-8, and it doesn't seem to make a difference.
I know the file is working OK on Linux, is there anything different about the paths in Windows?
"hg status" shows lots of files in the ignored directories
Are you referring to .DS_Store and .Python exclusively? The rule for ^bin$ will only ignore entries with that exact string. It will not, for example, ignore "bin/a.out".
The only other thing I could think of is if there is some global setting that sets the syntax to glob (as opposed to the default of regex) hiding somewhere. I'm not aware of any such thing, and it certainly isn't on by default if installing an official binary version of Mercurial.