Mercurial purge command only deleting deepest child folder in Windows?

Asked Oct 08 '13 at 20:57

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I am using the purge command in Windows for Mercurial (purge is a bundled extension) to delete all untracked and ignored files from the repository.

hg purge --all

However, it is showing weird behaviour in where it will only delete the deepest child folder in a scenario where you have a parent and a child folder, both of which are ignored.

Thus I have to run the above command multiple times (sometimes 6-7 times in a row), before it deletes all non-tracked and ignore files.

Why is this occurring?

asked Oct 08 '13 at 20:57

gbmhunter

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I've not seen that behaviour. What version of Mercurial are you using? – icabod Oct 10 '13 at 13:13
you could use a dos for loop with the command `hg st -nui` – Farid Oct 14 '13 at 13:30
I'm using Mercurial Distributed SCM v2.2.1. – gbmhunter Oct 14 '13 at 23:30

Mercurial purge command only deleting deepest child folder in Windows?

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