Mercurial/.hgignore - How do I ignore everything but the contents of a folder?

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I have a NetBeans project and the Mercurial repository is in the project root. I would like it to ignore everything except the contents of the "src" and "test" folders, and .hgignore itself.

I'm not familiar with regular expressions and can't come up with one that will do that.

The ones I tried:

(?!src/.*)

(?!test/.*)

(?!^.hgignore)

(?!src/.|test/.|.hgignore)

These seem to ignore everything, I can't figure out why.

Any advice would be great.

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