--- src/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py.orig	2011-05-20 15:24:44.936515549 +1200
+++ src/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py	2011-05-20 15:25:54.920519189 +1200
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@
           * the build tree (typically "build")
           * the release tree itself (only an issue if we ran "sdist"
             previously with --keep-temp, or it aborted)
-          * any RCS, CVS, .svn, .hg, .git, .bzr, _darcs directories
+          * any RCS, CVS, .svn, .git, .bzr, _darcs directories
         """
         build = self.get_finalized_command('build')
         base_dir = self.distribution.get_fullname()
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@
         else:
             seps = '/'
 
-        vcs_dirs = ['RCS', 'CVS', r'\.svn', r'\.hg', r'\.git', r'\.bzr',
+        vcs_dirs = ['RCS', 'CVS', r'\.svn', r'\.git', r'\.bzr',
                     '_darcs']
         vcs_ptrn = r'(^|%s)(%s)(%s).*' % (seps, '|'.join(vcs_dirs), seps)
         self.filelist.exclude_pattern(vcs_ptrn, is_regex=1)
