Ensure all files are added before a commit
In order to ensure all files have been added (or .hgignored) before going ahead with a commit, add the following pre-transaction commit hook to your mercurial.ini file
[hooks]
pretxncommit.add_all_files_first_please = hg stat | findstr "? " && EXIT /B 1 || EXIT /B 0
But i've had to disable that because it fails if i have a local commit that added a file, which "fetch" is merging to an incoming commit that also added files. Or something like that.