Delete All Untracked Files in Mercurial
July 4, 2010
Is there a way to delete all untracked files in a mercurial working area? Yes, with the purge extension.
Installing Purge
This extension is shipped by default with mercurial but turned off. To enable it, modify your config file (.hgrc on Unix, Mercurial.ini on Windows) to add
[extensions] purge =
This activates the plugin. You can now use
$ hg purge
to delete all untracked files.
