.hgignore regexp oddity

[Kastner Masilko, Friedrich]

From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com [mailto:mercurial-bounces at selenic.com] On Behalf Of John W
> I've been banging my head trying to get syntax:regexp working in .hgignore.
> I have a pattern that works if run directly in python, but is not
> working when in .hgignore, so I'm not sure what transformations go on
> inside mercurial on those regexps before they get compiled...
>
> <snip>
>   #
>   # I'm trying to do "any path without a dot in it"
>   #
> $ cat .hgignore_try
> ^[^.]*$
> $ mv .hgignore_try .hgignore
> $ hg st
> ? .hgignore
> ? foo.txt
>
> <snip>
>
> Any ideas on this?

Just an idea, but have you tried a "re:" in front of the regex? AFAIK .hgignore defaults to glob syntax...

$ echo re:^[^.]*$ > .hgignore

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Fritz
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