.hgignore in subfolders

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 11:06 +0000, Harry . wrote:
> Why is .hgignore in subfolders ignored (unless specifically included by the top-level .hgignore)?

Two reasons. First, there is a substantial cost to trying to open a file
in every directory on a large project. Second, we can build an optimized
regular expression matcher if we have all the data at the beginning, but
not if we load it incrementally.

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