.hgignore regexp oddity

[Will Maier]

Hi John-

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:15:37PM -0800, John W wrote:
> 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...
[...]
> $ cat .hgignore_try
> ^[^.]*$

You need to escape the dot. Try '^[^\.]*$'.

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