How to find a removed file?

[Tom Hindle]

oh it you want one command then something like:

hg log -r "parents(removes('*host_alive*'))" -T {rev} | xargs hg cat
host_alive -r

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 4:12 PM Tom Hindle <tom_hindle at sil.org> wrote:

> hg log -r removes('*host_alive*')
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 3:51 PM Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>
>> I removed a file called 'host_alive' from my mercurial repository
>> quite a while ago.  How can I get a copy of its last version?
>>
>> I thought that:-
>>     hg log --removed host_alive
>>
>> should do it but that returns nothing.  There definitely is history in
>> there:-
>>
>>     chris at esprimo$ find . -name 'host_alive*'
>>     ./.hg/store/data/share/bin/host_alive.i
>>     ./.hg/store/data/bin/host_alive.i
>>     ./.hg/store/data/t470/bin/host_alive.i
>>     ./.hg/store/data/isbd/bin/host_alive.i
>>     ./.hg/store/data/esprimo/bin/host_alive.i
>>     ./.hg/store/data/host_alive.i
>>     chris at esprimo$
>>
>>
>> So how can I get a copy of it?
>>
>> --
>> Chris Green
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