Mercurial - revert the uncommitted changes after did "hg update -C"

Question

I'm new to Mercurial. I did hg status and I saw the files that changed since the last commit have M in front. I then tried hg update -C. Is there any way I can get back the version of the files with M before I did hg update -C? Or am I pretty much screwed? :( since hg update -C discards any changes since the last commit

Answer 1

Well, let's take a look:

PS C:\dev> hg init foo
PS C:\dev> cd .\foo
PS C:\dev\foo> echo ":)" > file.txt
PS C:\dev\foo> hg add
adding file.txt
PS C:\dev\foo> hg com -m ":D"
PS C:\dev\foo> echo "DDDD" >> .\file.txt
PS C:\dev\foo> hg sta
M file.txt
PS C:\dev\foo> hg up -C
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
PS C:\dev\foo> hg sta
PS C:\dev\foo> dir


    Directory: C:\dev\foo


Mode                LastWriteTime     Length Name
----                -------------     ------ ----
d----         5/14/2013   4:06 PM            .hg
-a---         5/14/2013   4:06 PM         10 file.txt


PS C:\dev\foo> type .\file.txt
:)

It's gone. :( Sorry for the bad news!