How I deleted my new files with good help from Mercurial

[Anton Shestakov]

28.06.10, 16:20, "Jørgen Austvik" <jaustvik at acm.org>:

>  I'll replay how I did it, and highlight some places where it could
>  have been more forgiving (in square brackets). Hopefully others will
>  not delete their files in the same way :)

I've repeated the steps in my spare time and managed to get my files back. The problem is, I don't how hg log would not show the commit in which you've added your file:

>$ hg log | grep username
>(nothing containing my new files)
>$

Maybe there's something missing in your instructions. Because clearly:

>  $ hg backout tip
>  removing example_file
>  changeset 1033:e9a5491a4636 backs out changeset 1032:976a92922ca5
>  
>  $ hg rollback
>  

This way you've rolled back your backout. The commit with your file is still in the development history and you sure can go back to it. Just do hg up -C <rev> (hg help up) and your file will reappear.

On a side note, it was completely obvious (apart from `hg log | grep username` bit) to me partly because I use hg-prompt. It's like running hg status after every command you do (and more). That's some good addition to plain console, I recommend it.