This file basically only exists to have HG keep the "db" directory. I moved the DB to this subdirectory, because people keep running into a "Cannot open database file" error which results from permissions being set incorrectly. People mostly run "chown -R <md-dir>/*" instead of "chown -R <md-dir>" and therefore run into these problems. When the db is in a subdir of <md-dir>, it matches the wildcard and will then have correct permissions.