Is there a way to use mercurial to manage file names rather than content?

[Chris Green]

Is there a way to record the file *names* in a directory hierarchy
rather than their contents?

In particular I'd like to record the versions (indicated in the file
name) of things like Digikam and Drawio which are large appimage files.

I suppose one could create a 'source' file with something like:-

    ls -lR >filenames.txt

... and configuration manage filenames.txt, but is there a more
elegant way?

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Chris Green