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

The below method is straightforward and so stupid that it cannot go wrong. If you have deleted or renamed multiple files, it will be ok.

hg clone mydirectory mydirectory1

and now you start mc (or Far Manager) and compare what it was vs what it has become.

when it's done, just delete mydirectory1.