How to find a removed file?

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 11.02.2022 10:15, Chris Green wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 04:19:33PM -0700, Tom Hindle wrote:
>>    oh it you want one command then something like:
>>    hg log -r "parents(removes('*host_alive*'))" -T {rev} | xargs hg cat
>>    host_alive -r
> 
> hg log -r "parents(removes('*host_alive*'))" -T {rev}
> 
> returns absolutely nothing.
> 
> Just to show I am in the right place:-
> 
>     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$ hg log -r "parents(removes('*host_alive*'))" -T {rev}
>     chris at esprimo$ 
> 

Filenames in the store are encoded.

Uppercase is escaped: 'FOO' -> '_f_o_o'

So the real filename is probably "hostAlive", not "host_alive".

See
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/fncacheRepoFormat#Encoding_of_Windows_reserved_names