hg add -X .* invokes: ... not under root

[Brendan Cully]

On Friday, 10 July 2009 at 13:47, david at davidwbrown.name wrote:
> Hello Matt and Mercurial list, I have a curious situation with files on a remote repo. Attempts to issue the command: hg add -X .* (via SSH) returns the following condition: 
> 
> not under root. 

Assuming you actually wrote: ssh hg add -X .*

.* will be expanded in the directory you're sshing _from_, not _to_.