finding file removal change in repository

[Thomas Klausner]

On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 05:13:56PM +0900, Yuya Nishihara wrote:
> On Mon, 4 May 2015 09:10:45 +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 11:21:40AM -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> > > On 05/03/2015 11:17 AM, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > > >When I do 'hg log filename' the last entry I see is for the last
> > > >change before the removal of the file. How can I find the change that
> > > >removed the file?
> > > 
> > > hg log filename --removed
> > > 
> > > Found by doing:
> > > 
> > > hg help log
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > Why isn't that on by default?
> 
> Perhaps one reason is that --removed is slow.

Ok. I don't know what the mercurial stance to heuristics in the user
interface is, but I could imagine that it'd already be quite helpful
if '--removed' was implied when the file does not currently exist in
the checkout -- just an idea.

Thanks for the help!
 Thomas