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Trying to ignore a file on a windows platform fails. Additionally each failed attempt to ignore a file results in leaving a temporary file in repository root, thus polluting user's working tree. Ondreji, you should try a fix if it's working before you're closing a bug as fixed: result of core-main #cb1762116c0d.
fix: http://hg.netbeans.org/core-main/rev/b9adc411a3e1
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201102240001* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/b9adc411a3e1 User: Ondrej Vrabec <ovrabec@netbeans.org> Log: Issue #195837 - Git ignore fails on windows