--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Fri Aug 12 11:16:58 2005 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Fri Aug 12 15:06:52 2005 -0800
@@ -32,8 +32,7 @@
 def relpath(repo, args):
     cwd = repo.getcwd()
     if cwd:
-        return [util.pconvert(os.path.normpath(os.path.join(cwd, x)))
-                for x in args]
+        return [util.normpath(os.path.join(cwd, x)) for x in args]
     return args
 
 def matchpats(repo, cwd, pats = [], opts = {}, head = ''):

--- a/mercurial/hg.py	Fri Aug 12 11:16:58 2005 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/hg.py	Fri Aug 12 15:06:52 2005 -0800
@@ -312,14 +312,14 @@
                 l = file(self.wjoin(".hgignore"))
                 for pat in l:
                     if pat != "\n":
-                        p = util.pconvert(pat[:-1])
+			p = pat[:-1]
                         try:
-                            r = re.compile(p)
+                            re.compile(p)
                         except:
                             self.ui.warn("ignoring invalid ignore"
                                          + " regular expression '%s'\n" % p)
                         else:
-                            bigpat.append(util.pconvert(pat[:-1]))
+                            bigpat.append(p)
             except IOError: pass
 
             if bigpat:
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@
                 if stat.S_ISDIR(st.st_mode):
                     for dir, subdirs, fl in os.walk(f):
                         d = dir[len(self.root) + 1:]
-                        nd = os.path.normpath(d)
+                        nd = util.normpath(d)
                         if seen(nd):
                             subdirs[:] = []
                             continue
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@
         # not in .hgignore
 
         for src, fn in util.unique(traverse()):
-            fn = os.path.normpath(fn)
+            fn = util.normpath(fn)
             if seen(fn): continue
             if fn not in dc and self.ignore(fn):
                 continue

--- a/mercurial/util.py	Fri Aug 12 11:16:58 2005 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/util.py	Fri Aug 12 15:06:52 2005 -0800
@@ -70,9 +70,10 @@
 _globchars = {'[': 1, '{': 1, '*': 1, '?': 1}
 
 def pathto(n1, n2):
-    '''return the relative path from one place to another'''
-    if not n1: return n2
-    a, b = n1.split(os.sep), n2.split(os.sep)
+    '''return the relative path from one place to another.
+    this returns a path in the form used by the local filesystem, not hg.'''
+    if not n1: return localpath(n2)
+    a, b = n1.split('/'), n2.split('/')
     a.reverse(), b.reverse()
     while a and b and a[-1] == b[-1]:
         a.pop(), b.pop()
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@
         name = os.path.join(repo.root, cwd, name)
     name = os.path.normpath(name)
     if name.startswith(rootsep):
-        return name[len(rootsep):]
+        return pconvert(name[len(rootsep):])
     elif name == repo.root:
         return ''
     else:
@@ -121,7 +122,7 @@
         for p in pat.split(os.sep):
             if patkind(p)[0] == 'glob': break
             root.append(p)
-        return os.sep.join(root)
+        return '/'.join(root)
 
     pats = []
     files = []
@@ -204,6 +205,12 @@
     def pconvert(path):
         return path.replace("\\", "/")
 
+    def localpath(path):
+        return path.replace('/', '\\')
+
+    def normpath(path):
+        return pconvert(os.path.normpath(path))
+
     makelock = _makelock_file
     readlock = _readlock_file
 
@@ -232,6 +239,11 @@
     def pconvert(path):
         return path
 
+    def localpath(path):
+        return path
+
+    normpath = os.path.normpath
+
     def makelock(info, pathname):
         try:
             os.symlink(info, pathname)