undoing a hg addremove mistake

[Luke Mergner]

Hi,

I am trying to recover some files from my working directory (a python
project). Somehow using Vim, I created a file named ";".  Having forgotten
about it, I later "hg addremove", which added the bad file. Being clever, I
decided to remove it with hg by saying...

$ hg remove directory/;

...which removed a about a dozen files in several child directories. I
haven't committed yet. However, saying "hg add *" doesn't seem to do
anything since the files appear to be completely gone. Is this the case
even though I didn't say --force?

Is there anyway to recover these files at this point? I'd like an expert
opinion before I commit and move on.

A caveat: I am a hobbyist and while I try to learn as much as I can about
the tools I use, obviously I still have a lot to learn.

Mercurial 2.6.2
Debian Wheezy

Thanks,

Luke Mergner
lmergner at gmail.com
Glendale, CA
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