--- a/mercurial/ignore.py	Thu Jul 26 11:19:53 2007 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/ignore.py	Mon Jul 30 20:01:16 2007 +0200
@@ -57,10 +57,13 @@
                         warn(_("%s: ignoring invalid syntax '%s'\n") % (f, s))
                     continue
                 pat = syntax + line
-                for s in syntaxes.values():
-                    if line.startswith(s):
+                for s, rels in syntaxes.items():
+                    if line.startswith(rels):
                         pat = line
                         break
+                    elif line.startswith(s+':'):
+                        pat = rels + line[len(s)+1:]
+                        break
                 pats[f].append(pat)
         except IOError, inst:
             if f != files[0]: