hg revert - Refetching a locally deleted file from Mercurial

Question

I deleted one of the files that was in my repository locally (just at the file system level, not using hg remove). I now want to get that file back from the repository to my local directory. When I do hg status, it knows that the file is locally deleted, but there are no changes to be commited which is what I would expect.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8942022/refetching-a-locally-deleted-file-from-mercurial

Answer 1

$ hg revert your-file

will restore it.

Edit: see http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hg.1.html#revert