hg rm without removing the file?

[TK Soh]

On 4/26/07, Marcin Kasperski <Marcin.Kasperski at softax.com.pl> wrote:
> Unless I miss sth, it is currently impossible to stop tracking
> the file without removing it (or moving it somewhere).
>
> It would be nice, if one could issue something like
>                  hg rm --keep some.file
> and remove the file from the repository point of view,
> but keep it in the directory.

To get Hg to stop tracking a file, you need to 'hg rm' the file and
add the filename into .hgignore. After the commit, you can 'hg cat' to
retrieve the file.