I broke my local repository

[Steve Fink]

On 09/13/2016 06:48 PM, Yves S. Garret wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm just setting things up.  I don't care too much if I lose the 
> history of what I did (since I'm just getting the ball rolling.)  I've 
> looked online to try to fix a corrupt repo problem 
> [https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/RepositoryCorruption#Repository_corruption], 
> but could not resolve my problem successfully.  Below is what I see 
> when I try to run hg status and hg verify.
>
> I was committing some source files, but wanted to remove the generated 
> binaries (*.o and *.exe), and did things such as: rm $(find . -name 
> "*.o")  and rm $(find . -name "*.exe")

As a side note, a better way to do that cleanup would be with ``hg purge``.

   hg purge -I 'glob:**.o' -I 'glob:**.exe'

would work, as would

   hg purge -I 'glob:**.{o,exe}'

though paranoid people like me almost never run purge without -p/-0, so 
personally I would probably run

   hg purge -p -I 'glob:**.{o,exe}'

then eyeball the results, and if they looked right,

   hg purge -0 -I 'glob:**.{o,exe}' | xargs -0 rm

Though if your goal really is to eliminate all generated files, and 
you're sure you've added everything necessary, a plain ``hg purge`` is 
pretty handy. (Perhaps after running ``hg purge -p`` to check.)