Can you remove a file from Mercurial without removing it from the filesystem like Git?
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00:00 Can You Remove A File From Mercurial Without Removing It From The Filesystem Like Git?
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00:28 Accepted Answer Score 16
00:45 Answer 3 Score 5
00:58 Answer 4 Score 2
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You can use hg forget <file> if files have just been added, however if the files have already been committed use hg rm --after <file>.
The help is a bit misleading, it should be hg rm --do-not-touch-the-filesystem.
ANSWER 2
Score 5
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.
ANSWER 3
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If you need to remove the file from Mercurial history as well, here's a stackoverflow question on how you do this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3558365/mercurial-remove-file-from-all-changesets/
ANSWER 4
Score 0
I believe you can simply ignore them by placing them in a .hgignore file in the folder.