How to do Mercurial's 'hg remove' for all missing files?

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I use this to remove a file from the repo:

hg remove <full file path>

What command can you use to do an hg remove on all files that have been deleted locally?

By deleted locally, I mean those showing up with an ! when you do hg status.

For adds, you can just do hg add to add all new files (those prefixed with ?).

score 377 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 09 '10 at 20:35

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This will add all new files that are not ignored, and remove all locally missing files

hg addremove

Either of these will remove all locally missing files(They are the same command)

hg remove --after
hg remove -A

answered Mar 09 '10 at 20:35

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there is also hg forget which is eqivalent to hg rm -Af – jk. Mar 10 '10 at 09:32
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the jk for a username is menacing, i feel like evertime i read one of your comments or posts you are saying "just kidding" at the end :( that being said, this helped, cheers! – Lester Peabody Sep 26 '11 at 21:39
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one word of warning... don't freak out when it dumps a whole bunch of crap to the screen... (like I did) – Richard B Oct 06 '13 at 11:12
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Wow! Thanks! That helped a lot! Wow! +1 :) `hg rm -A` – Cullub Jan 18 '16 at 20:17
So `hg remove` takes `-A` for all, but `hg add` doesn't? – domsson Aug 07 '23 at 07:55

score 35 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 21 '12 at 20:53

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If you intend to do addremove and commit, it can be joined with '-A' option as shown here:

hg commit -A -m 'Commit with addremove'

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answered Mar 21 '12 at 19:25

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Phew! This saved me a whole bunch of time, thank you! – Yaakov Bressler Sep 25 '20 at 19:29

score 5 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 22 '17 at 06:39

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The original question asked how to remove (i.e. forget) files that show up as "!" when using hg st. A direct approach which has the advantage of transparency is to use hg st with the -n option:

hg -v forget $(hg st -nd)

(Of course the files will only be forgotten at the next commit.)

The flags are well-documented elsewhere (e.g. by the hg command itself), but in brief:

-n means "filename only"
-d means "select files that have been deleted"

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answered Sep 16 '15 at 05:47

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Can you explain each of those flags? – Cullub Jan 18 '16 at 20:19

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 08 '15 at 02:39

If you want to addremove and commit, but are not ready to commit the rest of your changes, I think you still have to enumerate them:

$ hg st
M modified-file
A added-file
R removed-file-1
R removed-file-2

$ hg commit -m"remove removed-file-1 and removed-file-2" removed-file-*
abort: removed-file-*: No such file or directory

$ hg commit -m"remove removed-file-1 and removed-file-2" removed-file-1 removed-file-2
committed changeset 185:628800a7af84

How to do Mercurial's 'hg remove' for all missing files?

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