'forget' the recently added files

[Joris Putcuyps]

Erik Bågfors wrote:
> On 5/25/06, Joris Putcuyps <joris.putcuyps at skynet.be> wrote:
>> Aaron Bentley wrote:
>> > Joris Putcuyps wrote:
>> >>> Hello everybody
>> >>>
>> >>> After issuing the 'add' command, I sometimes notice files were added
>> >>> which were hidden from me.
>> >>> How do I forget those files, without using the 'remove' on each file?
>> >
>> > If you haven't made any other changes, you can use 'revert'.
>> >
>> > To reduce the risk of accidental adds, you can specify particular
>> > subdirectories, or particular files.
>> >
>> > Perhaps we should add a '--new' option to remove that would cause it to
>> > remove all newly-added files.
>> >
>> > Aaron
>> In the past I've used the revert, but, I think it was with an older
>> version, this resulted in lost files ( bzr init, bzr add, oops.. wrong
>> files, bzr revert, no more files :( )
>> I don't know if it's with mercurial or another VCS which had the command
>>  'forget' to undo the 'add'.
> 
> 
> Isn't it just remove
> 
> : [bagfors at zyrgelkwyt]$ ; bzr help remove
> usage: bzr remove FILE...
> aliases: rm
> 
> Make a file unversioned.
> 
> This makes bzr stop tracking changes to a versioned file.  It does
> not delete the working copy.
> 
> 
> 
> : [bagfors at zyrgelkwyt]$ ; bzr init
> 
> : [bagfors at zyrgelkwyt]$ ; touch a
> 
> : [bagfors at zyrgelkwyt]$ ; bzr add
> added a
> 
> : [bagfors at zyrgelkwyt]$ ; bzr st
> bzradded:
>  a
> 
> : [bagfors at zyrgelkwyt]$ ; bzr remove a
> 
> : [bagfors at zyrgelkwyt]$ ; ls
> a
> 
> : [bagfors at zyrgelkwyt]$ ; bzr st
> unknown:
>  a
> 
> /Erik
> 
> 
Yes, remove will do, but trying this with multiple files is a bit
annoying. You need to manual check the files that you don't want and
call remove on them.

Joris