How to forget all removed files with Mercurial

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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)

I

Answer 3

You can try:

hg forget -I '*'

in order to include all files in your forget command.

Answer 4

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.