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diff --git a/‎Doc/dist/dist.tex‎
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diff --git a/‎Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py‎
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diff --git a/‎Misc/NEWS‎
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@@ -1213,7 +1213,8 @@ \section{Specifying the files to distribute}
 be included in the source distribution:
 \begin{itemize}
 \item all files in the Distutils ``build'' tree (default \file{build/})
-\item all files in directories named \file{RCS}, \file{CVS} or \file{.svn}
+\item all files in directories named \file{RCS}, \file{CVS}, \file{.svn},
+      \file{.hg}, \file{.git}, \file{.bzr}, or \file{\_darcs}
 \end{itemize}
 Now we have our complete list of files, which is written to the manifest
 for future reference, and then used to build the source distribution
@@ -1246,7 +1247,8 @@ \section{Specifying the files to distribute}
   \code{prune} command in the manifest template comes after the
   \code{recursive-include} command
 \item exclude the entire \file{build} tree, and any \file{RCS},
-  \file{CVS} and \file{.svn} directories
+  \file{CVS}, \file{.svn}, \file{.hg}, \file{.git}, \file{.bzr}, or
+  \file{\_darcs} directories
 \end{enumerate}
 Just like in the setup script, file and directory names in the manifest
 template should always be slash-separated; the Distutils will take care
 
@@ -347,14 +347,14 @@ def prune_file_list (self):
           * the build tree (typically "build")
           * the release tree itself (only an issue if we ran "sdist"
             previously with --keep-temp, or it aborted)
-          * any RCS, CVS and .svn directories
+          * any RCS, CVS, .svn, .hg, .git, .bzr, _darcs directories
         """
         build = self.get_finalized_command('build')
         base_dir = self.distribution.get_fullname()
 
         self.filelist.exclude_pattern(None, prefix=build.build_base)
         self.filelist.exclude_pattern(None, prefix=base_dir)
-        self.filelist.exclude_pattern(r'/(RCS|CVS|\.svn)/.*', is_regex=1)
+        self.filelist.exclude_pattern(r'(^|/)(RCS|CVS|\.svn|\.hg|\.git|\.bzr|_darcs)/.*', is_regex=1)
 
 
     def write_manifest (self):
 
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Core and builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Bug #1725737: In distutil's sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
+  root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
+
 - Bug #1389051: imaplib causes excessive memory fragmentation when reading
   large messages.