'hg status' exception

[Alexis S. L. Carvalho]

Thus spake Yakov Lerner:
> On 7/14/07, Alexis S. L. Carvalho <alexis at cecm.usp.br> wrote:
> > Google suggests this may be a problem with the size of the resulting
> > regex.  This looks like a particularly annoying problem, since the error
> > is coming up when we try to use the regex (instead of when we try to
> > compile it).  Can you tell us what the "*" expands to (i.e. output of
> > "ls -d *")?
> >
> > And what python version are you using?
> 
> Python 2.4.3
> 
> I am sending filelist to you.

Yeah, I guess this is really a problem with a Very Large Regexp.

What does the following command print?

python -c 'import _sre; print _sre.CODESIZE'

If it prints "2" (and I think it will), this is probably the exact same
problem from http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue604 .

Alexis