Bug in Mercurial?

[Octavian Râşniţă]

From: "Brendan Cully" <brendan at kublai.com>

> On Wednesday, 23 December 2009 at 19:21, Octavian Râşniţă wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Today I've seen that Mercurial ignores some files from a program I
>> made and I don't know if I am missing something or it has a bug.
>>
>> I use to commit the changes using:
>>
>> hg commit -A
>>
>> Should this command add all the newly created files in the
>> repository, even if they were not added before?
>>
>> I also use to check if there are any uncommited changes using:
>>
>> hg status
>>
>> Well, I have used hg status for more times, with no results displayed
>> so I thought that all the changes were commited.
>>
>> After this step, I have pushed the changes to a central server as
>> before, using:
>>
>> hg push ssh://hg@my-site.ro:16007/hg/ProjectName
>>
>> And then from that repository I cloned it with
>>
>> hg clone
>>
>> But 3 files were missing.
>>
>> I have checked again my computer with hg status, but no uncommited
>> changes were reported.
>>
>> Then I added the files manually, using
>>
>> hg add path/to/the/file
>>
>> This command didn't tell me that those files were already added.
>> After I added them this way, I was able to commit them, but I am not
>> sure anymore that Mercurial is working correctly.
>
> Most likely the missing files are being deliberately ignored due to a
> pattern in .hgignore. If so, hg status --ignored would show them.

Interesting!

Some of the files I want to be tracked appear as ignored, although I don't 
know why. Here is the content of the .hgignore file:

logs
temp
include
old_.*
brk_local.*
root/static/analiza
root/static/anunturi

And here are the files that appear as ignored:

I root\templates\admin\user\old_login.tt
I root\templates\comunicate\bvb\capital_change_body.tt
I root\templates\cotatii\bvb\biggest_decreases_body.tt
I root\templates\cotatii\bvb\biggest_increases_body.tt
I root\templates\cotatii\bvb\delayed_body.tt
I root\templates\cotatii\bvb\most_traded_body.tt
I root\templates\indici\bvb\istorici_body.tt
I root\templates\test\sha1.tt

Do you know why those patterns match these files?
(And why they don't match many many other files which are stored in other 
subdirectories under root\templates?)

I have also tried to change the / with \ (because I am under Windows) in the 
patterns, but that way it doesn't work, so it should be something else.

Thank you.

Octavian