Undo an hg push (backout?)

I made a big oops, and could use some help undoing it.

We have two repositories-a fairly stable repository, and a repository we're working on changes in. I just made a defect fix in our stable repository, and was moving it up to the working repository. I pulled from the stable repository, merged, then accidentally pushed to the stable repository.

The stable repository now looks like this:

*merge
| \
|  \
|   *b
*a  |
|  / 
*c

where a is the commit that should be the tip of the stable repository, b is all the stuff that we've done in the development repository, and c is the point we branched the development repository.

How do I go about making it back to:

*a
|
*c

(I know I can't really make changes go away, I'm just looking for a functional structure...)

I've read some things that make me think that hg backout is the command I need, but I'm not exactly sure what it does.

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I think it to late to make hg rollback since you have already pushed your changes.

You might try with MQ extensions but this also works locally. hg strip will only modify your local repo. You could of course try to modify your server repo directly on server but if somebody pulled it it is too late.

Another option is described in chapter 9 of hgbook in section Backing out a merge. It involves hg backout command but it might be an overkill for you...

I suggest to hg update -C to *a revision, merge with tip and ignore all changes from *merge? Your repository will look more or less like this than:

*second merge
 |  \ 
 |   \ 
 |    \     
 |     \ 
*merge | 
| \    |
|  \   |
|   *b |
*a  | /
|  / /
*c---

Commands for this are

$ hg --config ui.merge=internal:local merge #keep my files
$ hg --config ui.merge=internal:other merge #keep their files

More details could be found here.

answered 2010-09-22T07:10:45.017

Undo an hg push (backout?)

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