How can I recover a removed file in Mercurial (if at all)?

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Accidentally, by using a GUI as opposed to CLI, I removed every file in a Mercurial project.

I recovered with Revert ok and lost some work, which as I have time machine I could easily get back. But is there a way of un-remove/undelete such files? Trawled through the manual and googled but cannot see anything. Any plugins?

I am probably answering my own question here but the files were gone from the directory and were not in the trash to recover so I am assuming Remove is irrevocable?

p.s. I know that hg forget or hg remove -Af will remove without deleting from the directory but my question has to do with the error I made as opposed to cool thinking the action through.

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I set up a repository, committed all, Removed and then committed again

If this is the case then you just need to update the working directory to the previous revision:

$ hg update -C -r-2

Note the negative revision number. If the files you deleted aren't in the previous revision, you can find them by using:

$ hg log -v
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You can undo the last commit on a repo with hg rollback. There's only one level of rollback available, so if you did the remove with more than one commit, this won't completely undo your change. This only works on your local repository, so if you've pushed you won't be able to undo it in the remote repo.

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