hg remove -I PATTERN, how it works?

Question

Ho to remove all *.bak or *.orig files in mercurial?

example:

C:\dev\web>hg stat
? Views\System\UnderConstruction.cshtml.bak
? Views\Topic\Index.cshtml.bak
? Views\Topic\MasterPage.cshtml.bak
? Web.config.bak

C:\dev\web>hg rem -I *.bak
abort: no files specified

Answer 1

hg remove only removes files that have already been committed. AFAIK, there is no command in mercurial to remove untracked files.

To learn how file patterns work in mercurial, run hg help patterns.