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Mercurial: Revert "commit action" changes

Suppose i have made a change to a file, hg st show it as modified.

Now i want to commit. Before I can do so i do accidentially hg remove my file. Mercurial now would remove my file on the next commit, hg revert would retain it from removal, my changes would be lost however.

Is exporting a patch and then importing it on top of a MQ my only option to put my file back into "modified" state?

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I am not sure about that but try adding it back with hg add

And you can simply export and apply a patch without MQ

artemb  2009-09-25 12:26:50
i know, however MQ lets me manipulate my "commit" before actually doing a real commit, importing a patch always results in a commit.
Johannes Rudolph  2009-09-25 12:31:18
I mean apply to the working copy, not import
artemb  2009-09-25 12:39:51
This is the correct answer. Using `hg add` on a file that is scheduled to be removed from tracking will undo the remove and leave the contents untouched.
Steve Losh  2009-09-25 12:44:16
A note on your comment, Johannes Rudolph: "importing a patch always results in a commit". You can avoid that by doing `hg import --no-commit`
Ry4an  2009-09-25 14:50:02
im more and more realizing im a mercurial noob :-) seemed so easy in the beginning, and after thinkin about it, indeed it _is_ simple! Mercurial ftw :-)
Johannes Rudolph  2009-09-25 18:04:43

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