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).

Answer 2

The extension is already included in mercurial, but you still have to activate it.

It's as simple as creating a .hgrc file in your home directory (e.g. Win 7: C:\Users\«yourusername»\.hgrc) and adding the following content to that file:

[extensions] 
purge =

(Home directory is ~/.hgrc for most other desktop operating systems (Unix, Gnu/Linux, Mac osx, BSD, etc.)

Answer 3

I don't use git for my repository management. However, if I were to guess, I think hg purge might be what you are seeking.

Answer 4

There is no equivalent to git clean in the core Mercurial package.

However, the hg purge extension does what you are after.

There is an open issue to make this extension part of the core package.