Does Mercurial have an equivalent to git clean?

Question

hg clean does not seem to exist, which kinda bothers me. Is this a feature that Mercurial doesn\'t have or did they just name it differently?

Answer 1

If you are on a linux based system (or Windows cygwin) you can:

hg status | grep "^?" | xargs rm -rf

If this works you can put this in your ~/.hgrc:

[alias]
clean = !hg status | grep "^?" | xargs rm -rf

Then simply run:

hg clean

I tested this on windows using cygwin (should work on linux).