stymied by default update

[John Turner]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:37:11 -0500, John Turner <jjturner at energi.com>  
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Still learning the ropes here -
> 1) the head commit to my new repo was an add of 655 files
> 2) the next changeset was an add of 5 files
> 3) the next changeset added 2 ignore patterns to .hgignore which wouldn't
> affect the existing files in the repo - only unadded files currently
> sitting in the working directory
>
> Now when I run hg update, it only loads 5 files into the working  
> directory
> even though my .hgignore is only set to exclude .rpt files (a very small
> percentage of files which haven't even been added to the repo yet)
>
> What happened to the other 655 files?  I never ran hg remove...
> And even though I can call them up with "hg update 0" I can't 're-commit'
> them...
>
> (incidentally, it shows a break between the head changeset and changeset
> 1.. this seems to be a clue)
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> John

As a reference, here is the log (the "-1:000000000000" seems to be telling  
me something..):
E:\rmat_app>hg log
changeset:   3:30cf64386e8d
tag:         tip
user:        jt
date:        Tue Dec 30 17:26:30 2014 -0500
summary:     reverting to just ignore of .rpt files

changeset:   2:cce500291c6a
user:        jt
date:        Tue Dec 30 14:58:49 2014 -0500
summary:     ignoring anything in reports\base folder

changeset:   1:001d10e9ced9
parent:      -1:000000000000
user:        jt
date:        Tue Dec 30 13:45:37 2014 -0500
summary:     adding 5 files at repo root

changeset:   0:778565aaced0
user:        jt
date:        Tue Dec 30 13:38:39 2014 -0500
summary:     adding app files for initial commit