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

Question

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 mach

Answer 1

An addition to the accepted answer - this is faster if you want to undo all removals in a commit. I deleted a large folder with a few hundred files in it and did hg addremove, which was not at all my intent, so had to undo all of those deletes.

Using Find deleted files in Mercurial repository history, quickly? + xargs + tr, revert all revision -3 removals to the version from revision -4:

hg log -r -3 --template "{rev}: {file_dels}\n" | tr ' ' '\n' | xargs hg revert -r -4 

Note that this will fail if any of your files have spaces in the name; http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/customizing-the-output-of-mercurial.html doesn't appear to have any templates where {file_dels} is split by \n at the moment.