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What is the difference between the mercurial commands,
hg striphg backouthg revertAll these commands basically are used to revert/undo the effects of an earlier changeset.
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hg backout [OPTION]... [- r] REV. Revert/undo the effect of an earlier changeset.
Revert changes already committed To backout a specific changeset use hg backout -r CHANGESET . This will prompt you directly with a request for the commit message to use in the backout. To revert a file to a specific changeset, use hg revert -r CHANGESET FILENAME . This will revert the file without committing it.
You can manually trigger a rollback with 'hg rollback'. This will undo the last transactional command. If a pull command brought 10 new changesets into the repository on different branches, then ' hg rollback ' will remove them all. Please note: there is no backup when you rollback a transaction!
hg strip removes the changeset and all its descendants from the repository. It will be as if the changes never existed. Be careful when using this on public changesets as it will not remove it from any other repository and you'll get them back next time you pull.
hg backout creates a new changeset to reverse the effect of an earlier changeset. The old changeset will still remain in the repository but so will a new changeset to remove the changes.
hg revert with a revision updates the working copy to the specified revision. If you then commit that working copy it will have the effect of reverting all changes since.
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