.hg* file in archives?

[TK Soh]

On 9/4/06, John D. Mitchell <jdmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the pointers but:
>
> (A) .hg_archival.txt is not documented in hg help archive

It probably should.

> (B) I don't see any answer to my main question:  Why are these files
> created in the generated archive file?  I thought that the stated
> purpose of hg archive was to create a clean archive of the given
> repository.  IMNO (um, er, in my naive opinion :-), the focus is on
> the 'clean' part.

IMO, having them in the archive won't hurt. I guess in some rare
situation, they may be useful in tracing the archive back to the repo.
Besides, they are hidden files anyway.