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@@ -61,11 +61,6 @@ configure these files.
To control Mercurial\(aqs handling of files that it manages, many
commands support the \fB\-I\fP and \fB\-X\fP options; see
\%\fBhg help <command>\fP\: and \%\fBhg help patterns\fP\: for details.
-.sp
-Files that are already tracked are not affected by .hgignore, even
-if they appear in .hgignore. An untracked file X can be explicitly
-added with \%\fBhg add X\fP\:, even if X would be excluded by a pattern
-in .hgignore.
.SH SYNTAX
.sp
An ignore file is a plain text file consisting of a list of patterns,
@@ -103,11 +98,6 @@ Neither glob nor regexp patterns are rooted. A glob\-syntax pattern of
the form \fB*.c\fP will match a file ending in \fB.c\fP in any directory,
and a regexp pattern of the form \fB\e.c$\fP will do the same. To root a
regexp pattern, start it with \fB^\fP.
-.IP Note
-.
-Patterns specified in other than \fB.hgignore\fP are always rooted.
-Please see \%\fBhg help patterns\fP\: for details.
-.RE
.SH EXAMPLE
.sp
Here is an example ignore file.
@@ -137,7 +127,7 @@ Mercurial was written by Matt Mackall <\%mpm@selenic.com\:>.
.SH COPYING
.sp
This manual page is copyright 2006 Vadim Gelfer.
-Mercurial is copyright 2005\-2012 Matt Mackall.
+Mercurial is copyright 2005\-2010 Matt Mackall.
Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General
Public License version 2 or any later version.
.\" Common link and substitution definitions.