About "-A" option and ".hgignore"

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 26.07.2009 01:04, frankabel wrote:
> Thanks a lot Bruce!
> 
> I just read "The Mercurial system uses a file called .hgignore in the
> root directory of a repository" in the man page of hgignore, and think
> that "root directory of a repository" is the .hg dir, due to .hg is
> the repo and the parent dir is the working copy, but well, seem like I
> was wrong.

The repository root directory is the parent directory of the .hg directory.

See http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Repository