stupid question about .hgignore

[TK Soh]

On 1/31/07, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On 2007-01-31 20:32, Rolando Espinoza La Fuente <darkrho at gmail.com> wrote:
> > why should or not .hgignore file be ignored by hg?
> >
> > echo .hgignore >> .hgignore
>
> Because if you ignore it, it's easy to miss some change and lose some
> history of the file, by skipping it during commits :)

Another problem I can see is that .hgignore will be ignored during cloning.