Changes to .hgignore (was: Re: dirstate and .hgignore)

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

Looking through old tagged mails I found this unsolved problem:

* Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> [20050729 07:38]:
> * Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> [20050729 00:21]:
> > The plan is to make .hgignore default to regex but issue warnings for
> > a release and then switch over to glob style as the default.
> 
> Does this really help?
> 
> If it warns, people will have to change it to re: or glob:, which
> makes it ugly.

We have the "syntax: foo" statement for a long time now, so we could
issue a warning if it is not used. Then the default would not
matter. Later the default can be changed then.

Or is it too late now? But we're still pre-1.0, so this might be our
last chance.

Thomas

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