How do I delete all untracked files from my working directory in Mercurial?

Question

Is it possible to delete all untracked files from my working directory? Let\'s say I added a bunch of files to my working directory, didn\'t add them via \'hg add\' and now want

Answer 1

Assuming that you are using a *nix system you could run something like this:

rm `hg st | awk '/\?/ {print $2}'`

from the root of the mercurial repository.

I don't know of a standard mercurial command to achieve the same but I believe there are many more command-line options to do this. I'm sure there are "better" solutions and would be interested to hear any other suggestions.

Please use this command with caution as it was not thoroughly tested.