How to find a removed file?

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 11:01:42AM +0100, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> 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".
> 
Aha, brilliant, thank you.  I have now got a copy of my file back.  It
was just to check how I did it rather than to actually restore the
file though I might reinstate it as it's quite handy.

Thanks everyone!

-- 
Chris Green