Ignore empty ignore patterns

mercurial/hg.py

@@ -269,6 +269,7 b' class repository:'
             try:
                 l = open(os.path.join(self.root, ".hgignore")).readlines()
                 for pat in l:
+                    if pat != "\n":
                     self.ignorelist.append(re.compile(pat[:-1]))
             except IOError: pass
         for pat in self.ignorelist: