hg remove [OPTION]... FILE...
aliases: rm
remove the specified files on the next commit
Schedule the indicated files for removal from the current branch.
This command schedules the files to be removed at the next commit. To undo a remove before that, see 'hg revert'. To undo added files, see 'hg forget'.
-A/--after can be used to remove only files that have already been deleted, -f/--force can be used to force deletion, and -Af can be used to remove files from the next revision without deleting them from the working directory.
The following table details the behavior of remove for different file states (columns) and option combinations (rows). The file states are Added [A], Clean [C], Modified [M] and Missing [!] (as reported by 'hg status'). The actions are Warn, Remove (from branch) and Delete (from disk):
| opt/state | A | C | M | ! |
| none | W | RD | W | R |
| -f | R | RD | RD | R |
| -A | W | W | W | R |
| -Af | R | R | R | R |
Note:
'hg remove' never deletes files in Added [A] state from the working directory, not even if "--force" is specified.
Returns 0 on success, 1 if any warnings encountered.
options ([+] can be repeated):
| -A | --after | record delete for missing files |
| -f | --force | forget added files, delete modified files |
| -S | --subrepos | recurse into subrepositories |
| -I | --include PATTERN [+] | include names matching the given patterns |
| -X | --exclude PATTERN [+] | exclude names matching the given patterns |
| -n | --dry-run | do not perform actions, just print output |
global options ([+] can be repeated):
| -R | --repository REPO | repository root directory or name of overlay bundle file |
| --cwd DIR | change working directory | |
| -y | --noninteractive | do not prompt, automatically pick the first choice for all prompts |
| -q | --quiet | suppress output |
| -v | --verbose | enable additional output |
| --color TYPE | when to colorize (boolean, always, auto, never, or debug) | |
| --config CONFIG [+] | set/override config option (use 'section.name=value') | |
| --debug | enable debugging output | |
| --debugger | start debugger | |
| --encoding ENCODE | set the charset encoding (default: utf-8) | |
| --encodingmode MODE | set the charset encoding mode (default: strict) | |
| --traceback | always print a traceback on exception | |
| --time | time how long the command takes | |
| --profile | print command execution profile | |
| --version | output version information and exit | |
| -h | --help | display help and exit |
| --hidden | consider hidden changesets | |
| --pager TYPE | when to paginate (boolean, always, auto, or never) (default: auto) |