I want mercurial to remove several files from the current state of the repository. However, I want the files to exist in prior history. How do forget and ...
Once you decide that a file no longer belongs in your repository, use the hg remove command. This deletes the file, and tells Mercurial to stop tracking it ( which ...
You can just use hg forget or maybe add the file to your .hgignore file. And to answer the last question about the R in my_file . If you see the help for hg rm -- help ...
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.
After you hg remove a file, Mercurial will no longer track changes to that file, even if you recreate a file with the same name in your working directory. If you do ...
hg remove file. Stop tracking & delete. hg copy file target. Copy file. hg move file target.
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This deletes the file, and tells Mercurial to stop tracking it (which will occur at the next ...
... file and then use hg addremove normally to have Mercurial track ...
Changing a file; Multiple users changing files, merging, updating repositories; Comparing working files with repository; Adding new files, directories; Removing ...