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On the other hand, if you deleted the missing file by accident, use
\hgcmdargs{revert}{\emph{filename}} to recover the file.  It will
reappear, in unmodified form.
\interaction{daily.files.recover-missing}

\subsection{Aside: why tell Mercurial explicitly to 
  remove a file?}

You might wonder why Mercurial requires you to explicitly tell it that
you are deleting a file.  Early during the development of Mercurial,
it let you delete a file however you pleased; Mercurial would notice
the absence of the file automatically when you next ran a
\hgcmd{commit}, and stop tracking the file.  In practice, this made it
too easy to accidentally remove a file without noticing.

\subsection{Useful shorthand---adding and removing files
  in one step}

Mercurial offers a combination command, \hgcmd{addremove}, that adds
untracked files and marks missing files as removed.  
\interaction{daily.files.addremove}
The \hgcmd{commit} command also provides a \hgopt{commit}{-A} option

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On the other hand, if you deleted the missing file by accident, use
\hgcmdargs{revert}{\emph{filename}} to recover the file.  It will
reappear, in unmodified form.
\interaction{daily.files.recover-missing}

\subsection{Aside: why tell Mercurial explicitly to remove a file?}

You might wonder why Mercurial requires you to explicitly tell it that
you are deleting a file.  Early during the development of Mercurial,
it let you delete a file however you pleased; Mercurial would notice
the absence of the file automatically when you next ran a
\hgcmd{commit}, and stop tracking the file.  In practice, this made it
too easy to accidentally remove a file without noticing.

\subsection{Useful shorthand---adding and removing files in one step}

Mercurial offers a combination command, \hgcmd{addremove}, that adds
untracked files and marks missing files as removed.  
\interaction{daily.files.addremove}
The \hgcmd{commit} command also provides a \hgopt{commit}{-A} option