Mercurial: roll back an "hg commit --amend".

Question

I accidentally did a "hg commit --amend" instead of just a commit. How can I roll back the commit to before the amend?

Answer 1

You can use hg reflog (from the journal extension) and hg reset <hash>.

hg reflog -v 

should give something like:

<old-hash> -> <new-hash> <user> <timestamp>  commit --amend <some-path> 

if that is the amend you want to revert, just use:

hg reset <old-hash> 

The commit will be reverted to what is previously was and the changes that were amended should now be uncommitted changes (check using hg status and hg diff).