--- a/mercurial/match.py	Mon Feb 13 15:39:29 2017 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/match.py	Mon Feb 13 17:03:14 2017 -0800
@@ -125,9 +125,12 @@
         self._always = False
         self._pathrestricted = bool(include or exclude or patterns)
         self._warn = warn
+
+        # roots are directories which are recursively included/excluded.
         self._includeroots = set()
+        self._excluderoots = set()
+        # dirs are directories which are non-recursively included.
         self._includedirs = set(['.'])
-        self._excluderoots = set()
 
         if badfn is not None:
             self.bad = badfn
@@ -137,14 +140,20 @@
             kindpats = self._normalize(include, 'glob', root, cwd, auditor)
             self.includepat, im = _buildmatch(ctx, kindpats, '(?:/|$)',
                                               listsubrepos, root)
-            self._includeroots.update(_roots(kindpats))
-            self._includedirs.update(util.dirs(self._includeroots))
+            roots, dirs = _rootsanddirs(kindpats)
+            self._includeroots.update(roots)
+            self._includedirs.update(dirs)
             matchfns.append(im)
         if exclude:
             kindpats = self._normalize(exclude, 'glob', root, cwd, auditor)
             self.excludepat, em = _buildmatch(ctx, kindpats, '(?:/|$)',
                                               listsubrepos, root)
             if not _anypats(kindpats):
+                # Only consider recursive excludes as such - if a non-recursive
+                # exclude is used, we must still recurse into the excluded
+                # directory, at least to find subdirectories. In such a case,
+                # the regex still won't match the non-recursively-excluded
+                # files.
                 self._excluderoots.update(_roots(kindpats))
             matchfns.append(lambda f: not em(f))
         if exact:
@@ -241,7 +250,7 @@
             return 'all'
         if dir in self._excluderoots:
             return False
-        if (self._includeroots and
+        if ((self._includeroots or self._includedirs != set(['.'])) and
             '.' not in self._includeroots and
             dir not in self._includeroots and
             dir not in self._includedirs and
@@ -422,7 +431,9 @@
         # m.exact(file) must be based off of the actual user input, otherwise
         # inexact case matches are treated as exact, and not noted without -v.
         if self._files:
-            self._fileroots = set(_roots(self._kp))
+            roots, dirs = _rootsanddirs(self._kp)
+            self._fileroots = set(roots)
+            self._fileroots.update(dirs)
 
     def _normalize(self, patterns, default, root, cwd, auditor):
         self._kp = super(icasefsmatcher, self)._normalize(patterns, default,
@@ -621,19 +632,16 @@
                     raise error.Abort(_("invalid pattern (%s): %s") % (k, p))
         raise error.Abort(_("invalid pattern"))
 
-def _roots(kindpats):
-    '''return roots and exact explicitly listed files from patterns
+def _patternrootsanddirs(kindpats):
+    '''Returns roots and directories corresponding to each pattern.
 
-    >>> _roots([('glob', 'g/*', ''), ('glob', 'g', ''), ('glob', 'g*', '')])
-    ['g', 'g', '.']
-    >>> _roots([('rootfilesin', 'g', ''), ('rootfilesin', '', '')])
-    ['g', '.']
-    >>> _roots([('relpath', 'r', ''), ('path', 'p/p', ''), ('path', '', '')])
-    ['r', 'p/p', '.']
-    >>> _roots([('relglob', 'rg*', ''), ('re', 're/', ''), ('relre', 'rr', '')])
-    ['.', '.', '.']
+    This calculates the roots and directories exactly matching the patterns and
+    returns a tuple of (roots, dirs) for each. It does not return other
+    directories which may also need to be considered, like the parent
+    directories.
     '''
     r = []
+    d = []
     for kind, pat, source in kindpats:
         if kind == 'glob': # find the non-glob prefix
             root = []
@@ -642,11 +650,48 @@
                     break
                 root.append(p)
             r.append('/'.join(root) or '.')
-        elif kind in ('relpath', 'path', 'rootfilesin'):
+        elif kind in ('relpath', 'path'):
             r.append(pat or '.')
+        elif kind in ('rootfilesin',):
+            d.append(pat or '.')
         else: # relglob, re, relre
             r.append('.')
-    return r
+    return r, d
+
+def _roots(kindpats):
+    '''Returns root directories to match recursively from the given patterns.'''
+    roots, dirs = _patternrootsanddirs(kindpats)
+    return roots
+
+def _rootsanddirs(kindpats):
+    '''Returns roots and exact directories from patterns.
+
+    roots are directories to match recursively, whereas exact directories should
+    be matched non-recursively. The returned (roots, dirs) tuple will also
+    include directories that need to be implicitly considered as either, such as
+    parent directories.
+
+    >>> _rootsanddirs(\
+        [('glob', 'g/h/*', ''), ('glob', 'g/h', ''), ('glob', 'g*', '')])
+    (['g/h', 'g/h', '.'], ['g'])
+    >>> _rootsanddirs(\
+        [('rootfilesin', 'g/h', ''), ('rootfilesin', '', '')])
+    ([], ['g/h', '.', 'g'])
+    >>> _rootsanddirs(\
+        [('relpath', 'r', ''), ('path', 'p/p', ''), ('path', '', '')])
+    (['r', 'p/p', '.'], ['p'])
+    >>> _rootsanddirs(\
+        [('relglob', 'rg*', ''), ('re', 're/', ''), ('relre', 'rr', '')])
+    (['.', '.', '.'], [])
+    '''
+    r, d = _patternrootsanddirs(kindpats)
+
+    # Append the parents as non-recursive/exact directories, since they must be
+    # scanned to get to either the roots or the other exact directories.
+    d.extend(util.dirs(d))
+    d.extend(util.dirs(r))
+
+    return r, d
 
 def _explicitfiles(kindpats):
     '''Returns the potential explicit filenames from the patterns.