How to automatically remove all .orig files in Mercurial working tree?
dvcs, mercurial, purge
Solution
Personally, I use
$ rm **/*.orig
if I get tired of the `.orig` files. This works in Zsh and in Bash 4 after you run `shopt -s globstar`.
But if you use another shell or want a built-in solution, then maybe you'll like the purge extension (link updated 2016-08-25). That lets you remove all untracked files with
$ hg purge
You can remove all untracked and ignored files with
$ hg purge --all
An advantage of using `hg purge` is that this will also cleanup directories that become empty after removing the files. The `rm` command line will just leave the empty directories behind.
Problem
During merges mercurial leaves .orig file for any unresolved file. But after manually resolving problems and marking a file correct it does not delete the .orig file. Can it be automatically removed by some command? I work on a Mac so I can use something like: ``` find . -iname '*.orig' -exec rm '{}' ';' ``` and alias it or something, but I'd rather use something like hg cleanup... UPDATE: Since some time now, Purge extension is bundled with Mercurial and solves this problem nicely.