Force hg revert to delete instead of reverting

[Steve Borho]

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Henri Wiechers <hwiechers at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using mercurial 1.2.1 on Windows.
>
> Sometimes I revert back to an revision (say x) to check some stuff and
> then revert back to the tip.
> I've noticed that when reverting back to tip that revert doesn't
> delete files removed between x
> and tip, instead it forgets them. Is there anyway to get revert to
> delete them instead? I couldn't find a
> switch for this.

I suspect you want to be using the update command to checkout older
revisions.  hg revert is only used to backout changes.

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Steve Borho