I've got some files in a repo that I don't want tracked, is it possible to remove them without removing the actual files from the filesystem?
This would be equivalent to git's rm --cached.
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You can use hg forget <file> if files have just been added, however if the files have already been committed use hg rm --after <file>.
The help is a bit misleading, it should be hg rm --do-not-touch-the-filesystem.
It looks like hg forget is what I was looking for according to this.
This will mark a file so that it is no longer tracked after the next commit.
0If you need to remove the file from Mercurial history as well, here's a stackoverflow question on how you do this:
I believe you can simply ignore them by placing them in a .hgignore file in the folder.
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