Undo a remove action in Mercurial

Question

Suppose that I have made some changes in the working directory and accidentally marked several files (that include some of the modified ones) for removal. How do I unmark the files for removal without losing the changes I have made?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2175777/undo-a-remove-action-in-mercurial

Answer 1

Just hg add the files.

I don't know why you're getting some many answers that modify the working directory. If you've accidentally marked some files for removal you can undo it with add.

ry4an@four:~/hgtest$ hg status --all
M another_file
C a_file
ry4an@four:~/hgtest$ hg remove --after --force *
ry4an@four:~/hgtest$ hg status --all
R a_file
R another_file
ry4an@four:~/hgtest$ hg add *
ry4an@four:~/hgtest$ hg status --all
M another_file
C a_file

That said, don't use --force with hg remove or ever really. Also try to get in the habit of using hg forget instead of hg remove --after,