How to forget all removed files with Mercurial

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I am new to Mercurial and after a cleanup of the image folder in my project, I have a ton of files showing with ! in the 'hg status'. I can type a 'hg forget ' for each, but there must be an easier way.

So how can I tell mercurial to forget about all the removed (status = !) files in a folder?

Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2412239/how-to-do-mercurials-hg-remove-for-all-missing-files — Cullub, Jan 18 '16 at 20:24
Not exactly a duplicate, though solving either one requires listing files that don't show up in `ls`. That question asks how to mark deleted files as hg removed. This one is how to *un*mark all the hg removed files. — Joshua Goldberg, Jul 20 '16 at 16:51

score 27 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 24 '10 at 18:47

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If you're also okay with adding any files that exist and aren't ignored then:

hg addremove

would a popular way to do that.

answered Mar 24 '10 at 18:47

Ry4an Brase

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True, adding untracked files and marking missing files as removed in one shorthand command. +1 – VonC Mar 24 '10 at 18:56
This works for recursive folder traversal too, where-as the forget -I has to be performed in the directory of the files to be removed. – Nick Josevski Oct 12 '11 at 05:12

peak · Answer 2 · 2014-01-22T06:29:21.350

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With fileset (Mercurial 1.9):

hg forget "set:deleted()"

In general, on Linux or Mac:

hg status -dn | while read file ; do hg forget "$file" ; done

Or, if your shell allows it, if there are not too many files, and if the filenames do not contain spaces or special characters, then:

hg forget $(hg st -dn)

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answered Oct 15 '11 at 23:16

peak

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 24 '10 at 16:51

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You can try:

hg forget -I '*'

in order to include all files in your forget command.

answered Mar 24 '10 at 16:51

VonC

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be careful, that won't catch files beginning with a dot in the current directory. – Ry4an Brase Mar 24 '10 at 18:47
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didn't do anything for me: "abort: no files specified" – stian Apr 14 '11 at 07:43
Would you need \*\* instead of * in order to look beyond the root directory? (`hg help patterns`) – Joshua Goldberg Jul 20 '16 at 16:48
@JoshuaGoldberg Six years later, I would suppose so, but I don't have a mercurial to test right now. – VonC Jul 20 '16 at 18:25

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 20 '12 at 17:49

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By using the -d flag for status, which displays missing files:

for file in $(hg status -d | cut -d " " -f 2); do echo hg forget $file; done

Run this in the root of your repo, and if you're happy with the results, remove the echo

This has the bonus over the accepted answer of not doing any additional work, e.g. adding a bunch of untracked files.

answered Sep 20 '12 at 17:49

eqzx

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I get `no such file or directory` for each of the files, probably they are missing. – Grzenio Nov 13 '12 at 09:41

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 09 '14 at 08:08

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more shorter instead of

for file in $(hg status -d | cut -d " " -f 2); do echo hg forget $file; done

this

hg status -d | cut -d " " -f 2 | xargs echo hg forget # test case
hg status -d | cut -d " " -f 2 | xargs hg forget # real work

answered Jan 09 '14 at 08:08

Serhii Kuzmychov

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