.hgignore crashes Mercurial

[Guido Ostkamp]

Hello Matt,

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:
> What Python version and distribution are you using?

It's the latest Python 2.5.1 self-compiled from standard tarball got at 
<http://www.python.org/download>, 'configure' was used without any options 
so that the outcome installed to /usr/local. It runs on a SuSE SLES 9 
Linux system.

> Apparently Python can be compiled with puny regex support and we don't 
> have a workaround yet. But here's a quick stab at one, lemme know if it 
> works:

Thanks for the patch, I can confirm that it works.

Are you going to integrate it into the official build?

Regards

Guido