hg backout [OPTION]... [-r] REV

reverse effect of earlier changeset

Prepare a new changeset with the effect of REV undone in the current working directory.

If REV is the parent of the working directory, then this new changeset is committed automatically. Otherwise, hg needs to merge the changes and the merged result is left uncommitted.

Note: backout cannot be used to fix either an unwanted or incorrect merge.

By default, the pending changeset will have one parent, maintaining a linear history. With --merge, the pending changeset will instead have two parents: the old parent of the working directory and a new child of REV that simply undoes REV.

Before version 1.7, the behavior without --merge was equivalent to specifying --merge followed by "hg update --clean ." to cancel the merge and leave the child of REV as a head to be merged separately.

See "hg help dates" for a list of formats valid for -d/--date.

Returns 0 on success.

options:

--merge merge with old dirstate parent after backout
--parent REV parent to choose when backing out merge (DEPRECATED)
-r --rev REV revision to backout
-t --tool VALUE specify merge tool
-I --include PATTERN [+] include names matching the given patterns
-X --exclude PATTERN [+] exclude names matching the given patterns
-m --message TEXT use text as commit message
-l --logfile FILE read commit message from file
-d --date DATE record the specified date as commit date
-u --user USER record the specified user as committer

[+] marked option can be specified multiple times

global options:

-R --repository REPO repository root directory or name of overlay bundle file
--cwd DIR change working directory
-y --noninteractive do not prompt, automatically pick the first choice for all prompts
-q --quiet suppress output
-v --verbose enable additional output
--config CONFIG [+] set/override config option (use 'section.name=value')
--debug enable debugging output
--debugger start debugger
--encoding ENCODE set the charset encoding (default: ascii)
--encodingmode MODE set the charset encoding mode (default: strict)
--traceback always print a traceback on exception
--time time how long the command takes
--profile print command execution profile
--version output version information and exit
-h --help display help and exit
--hidden consider hidden changesets

[+] marked option can be specified multiple times