Getting .hg not found with Mercurial repo

Question

Just the other day I was having some problems with my XCode project so I deleted all of the files in my project directory, downloaded my latest commit from BitBucket, and copied all the files from that directory into my empty project directory. Yes I know this was pretty dumb, but now when I try to make a new commit I get: .hg not found. Is it possible to fix this or have I permanently screwed over my repo?

Answer 1

The whole mercurial repository usually remains in your working folder, right under the sub-folder .hg. I say usually, because by deleting your working folder, you also deleted your repo, so yes, it cannot be found anymore. Simply downloading your latest state does not bring it back.

Don't worry, since you had the whole repo in Bitbucket, you only need to reclone. Make a manual backup of your current changes before doing so, if you don't want to loose them.