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

A command that I use on Linux for cleaning up, saves the need to do a fresh search with find.

These need to be run from the root directory of the Mercurial project

hg status | grep ".orig" | cut -d ' ' -f 2- | xargs rm -f

Or if you want to clear all unknown files.

hg status | cut -d ' ' -f 2- | xargs rm -f