How can I recover a removed file in Mercurial (if at all)?

Question

Accidentally, by using a GUI as opposed to CLI, I removed every file in a Mercurial project.

I recovered with Revert ok and lost some work, which as I have time mach

Answer 1

The following worked for me.

hg revert -r <Revision Number> <File Name>

(Optional, to revert all files)

hg revert -r <Revision Number> --all

Answer 2

For Mercurial 1.6 and above

If you know the name of the delete file you can find its revision easily with:

hg log -r "removes('NAME.c')"

This will give you the revision in witch a file called NAME.c (in the root) is deleted.

Then you can revert the file to the previous revision with (like other answers):

hg revert -r <revision number> <path to deleted file>

You can use a file name pattern instead to adapt to what you know, for example you can use **/NAME.c to search in all directories. You can read about it in File Name Patters. And use this link to know about the new revset specifications.

Answer 3

You can remove committed revisions using the hg strip command, which is provided by the mq (Mercurial Queues) extension. This should give you back your files.

Make a backup before trying that out, because it will alter Mercurial's database of changesets.