hg purge

removes files not tracked by Mercurial

hg purge [OPTION]... [DIR]...

Aliases: clean

Delete files not known to Mercurial. This is useful to test local and uncommitted changes in an otherwise-clean source tree.

This means that purge will delete the following by default:

• Unknown files: files marked with "?" by `hg status`

• Empty directories: in fact Mercurial ignores directories unless they contain files under source control management

But it will leave untouched:

• Modified and unmodified tracked files

• Ignored files (unless -i or --all is specified)

• New files added to the repository (with `hg add`)

The --files and --dirs options can be used to direct purge to delete only files, only directories, or both. If neither option is given, both will be deleted.

If directories are given on the command line, only files in these directories are considered.

Be careful with purge, as you could irreversibly delete some files you forgot to add to the repository. If you only want to print the list of files that this program would delete, use the --print option.

Options

Every command accepts the global options.

-a	--abort-on-err	abort if an error occurs
	--all	purge ignored files too
-i	--ignored	purge only ignored files
	--dirs	purge empty directories
	--files	purge files
-p	--print	print filenames instead of deleting them
-0	--print0	end filenames with NUL, for use with xargs (implies -p/--print)
	--confirm	ask before permanently deleting files
-I	--include PATTERN [+]	include names matching the given patterns
-X	--exclude PATTERN [+]	exclude names matching the given patterns

Options marked [+] can be repeated.