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

[Robert Bauck Hamar]

*david at davidwbrown.name:
>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. 
>
>Please advise, David.

Never ever use '.*'. What happens is that '.*' expands to:

. ..

as the first two items, and .. is under the root of the repo. I'm really 
just guessing that this is your problem.  But: Is '..' also part of the 
message?

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Robert Bauck Hamar
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