.hg directory should be absent in tarballs

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Originally reported by: arfrever (Bitbucket: arfrever, GitHub: arfrever)

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.hg directory should be absent in tarballs. It contains some useless junk. release.py should ensure that unversioned files/directories are not included in tarballs.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/23

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Original comment by jaraco (Bitbucket: jaraco, GitHub: jaraco):

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To accomplish this need on other projects, I use hgtools as a file finder plugin. I don't want to integrate it with setuptools because of the complications around setup_requires (and the bugs that result). We could bundle hgtools and invoke it in release.py.

I see the files you're referencing in the setuptools 0.8b2 release. I'm not even sure how those files get included.

I just re-ran the sdist command on the default tip and those files don't get included, so I expect they'll be absent in the next release.

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Original comment by jaraco (Bitbucket: jaraco, GitHub: jaraco):

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Confirmed the 0.8b3 release doesn't include the .hg directory.