Can you remove a file from Mercurial without removing it from the filesystem like Git?

Question

I've got some files in a repo that I don't want tracked, is it possible to remove them without removing the actual files from the filesystem?

This would be equivalent to git's rm --cached.

score 16 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 14 '11 at 20:24

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You can use hg forget <file> if files have just been added, however if the files have already been committed use hg rm --after <file>.

The help is a bit misleading, it should be hg rm --do-not-touch-the-filesystem.

edited Apr 14 '11 at 20:24

ghickman

answered Jan 17 '11 at 18:45

tonfa

ghickman · Answer 2 · 2011-04-14T20:10:35.667

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It looks like hg forget is what I was looking for according to this.

This will mark a file so that it is no longer tracked after the next commit.

edited Apr 14 '11 at 20:10

answered Jan 18 '11 at 08:26

ghickman

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:33

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If you need to remove the file from Mercurial history as well, here's a stackoverflow question on how you do this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3558365/mercurial-remove-file-from-all-changesets/

edited May 23 '17 at 11:33

Community

answered Mar 24 '14 at 15:17

jitbit

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 17 '11 at 15:49

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I believe you can simply ignore them by placing them in a .hgignore file in the folder.

answered Jan 17 '11 at 15:49

Paul

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