You can use hg grep, but it searches the contents of all files.
What if I just want to search the file names of deleted files to recover one?
I tried hg grep -I file-name-pattern pattern but this seems to return no results.
I hadn't seen this but you can imagine how it is not exactly "quick" when you have a repository with thousands of revisions and thousands of file deletions.
wsorenson
2009-06-18 16:21:24
it doesn't grep contents, it only checks metadata
dfa
2009-06-18 16:29:02
A minor tweak to get rid of commits where no deletion happend: hg log --template "{rev}: {file_dels}\n" | grep -v ':\s*$'
Peter Rowell
2009-06-20 22:56:16
I use this all the time now, I wish I could vote you up more
Frank Krueger
2010-08-12 19:35:42
+2
A:
Update for Mercurial 1.6
You can use revsets for this too:
hg log -r "removes('*')"
Take a look at hg help revsets for the rest of the query language.
shambulator
2010-09-06 12:21:21