Commiting the delete of a file

[Peter Hosey]

On Jul 04, 2009, at 04:18:13, SHvD wrote:
> I now decide to delete the BFile from my working directory:
>
> D:\SandboxFolder>del BFile.txt

You must delete the file using Mercurial:

	hg rm BFile.txt

> Mercurial knows this, too:
>
> D:\SandboxFolder>hg status
> ! BFile.txt

But it doesn't know that that was intentional. It doesn't know whether  
you deleted it intentionally, you deleted it accidentally, or some  
software tool deleted it.

As such, Mercurial will not commit a deletion unless you have  
expressly told it to do that, because only then does Mercurial know  
that you want to do that.