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Creating a zip file using Send To -> Compressed folder excludes .hg folder on Windows 7. The same behavior is seen in XP. Is it because folder name starts with a dot ?
Mercurial creates .hg folder to hold the repository. Whenever the working folder is zipped, it leaves .hg folder out of compressed .zip file.
Try using 7-zip or another archival utility to compress the files, since Windows doesn’t generally like filenames starting with
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