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I am using mercurial for version control of a few files in a directory. Suppose I have 10 commits (10 changesets or revisions). I want to just view how a particular file, say thisFile.py, looked in its 7th revision. I don't want to revert back to this older version. I don't want to go and make any changes or fix any bugs in this previous version. I simply want to see it, without affecting the latest version of the file or the mercurial history in any way. Is there a simple way to do it?
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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.
hg revert changes the file content only and leaves the working copy parent revision alone.
Once you decide that a file no longer belongs in your repository, use the hg remove command. This deletes the file, and tells Mercurial to stop tracking it (which will occur at the next commit). A removed file is represented in the output of hg status with a “ R ”.
Use the hg cat command with the -r (revision) argument.
hg cat path_to/myfile.cpp -r 46 where 46 is the revision number (use hg log to see revision history)
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