# HG changeset patch # User Rainer Woitok # Date 2017-02-17 10:08:36 # Node ID e7eca6e1372ebf58da8f1619760a586f5b245fae # Parent 84ec2d6a2831a8888aca37cc34ffafc9902e8d3e doc: correct example concerning "hg purge" alias in man page "hgrc.5" The "hg purge" alias as currently described in "hgrc.5" issues a possibly confusing error message like rm: missing operand Try 'rm --help' for more information. if no files are to be purged at all. This patch slightly modifies the example by adding a "-f" option to the "rm" command. diff --git a/mercurial/help/config.txt b/mercurial/help/config.txt --- a/mercurial/help/config.txt +++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ run arbitrary commands. As an example, : will let you do ``hg echo foo`` to have ``foo`` printed in your terminal. A better example might be:: - purge = !$HG status --no-status --unknown -0 re: | xargs -0 rm + purge = !$HG status --no-status --unknown -0 re: | xargs -0 rm -f which will make ``hg purge`` delete all unknown files in the repository in the same manner as the purge extension.