How to automatically remove all .orig files in Mercurial working tree?

Question

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

Answer 1

I personally use the following from the root of the repo:

hg purge -p -I **/*.orig | xargs rm -f

It's a little better than using just 'hg purge' or 'hg purge --all' because you can filter out the specific file types you want to include.

For an explaination:

• The -p argument prints the list of files to be purged
• The -I argument whitelist filters the files to include
• The resulting list is piped to xargs and executed using the rm -f command