What is the difference between hg forget and hg remove?
mercurial, version-control
Solution
'`hg forget`' is just shorthand for '`hg remove -Af`'. From the '`hg remove`' help:
...and -Af can be used to remove files from the next revision without deleting them from the working directory.
Bottom line: '`remove`' deletes the file from your working copy on disk (unless you uses `-Af`) and '`forget`' doesn't.
Problem
I want mercurial to remove several files from the current state of the repository. However, I want the files to exist in prior history. How do `forget` and `remove` differ, and can they do what I want?