Local hgignore not working

Question

I'm trying to stop tracking changes to a subdirectory, so I followed these instructions and added the following to .\hg\hgrc:

[ui]
ignore = "C:\[...\myrepo]\.hg\.hgignore"

where that .hgignore contains

syntax: glob
[subdir]/**

But when I run hg status, I get the following error:

skipping unreadable ignore file 'C:\[...\myrepo]\.hg\.hgignore"': invalid mode ('r') or filename

What does this error mean? And how can I fix it?

Answer 1

I got this error after I installed SourceTree. I removed

[ui]
 ignore= 

from the file mercurial.ini in my home directory (C:\Users\myusername) and that fixed it.