In mercurial, how do I apply a reverse-patch to a particular file?

Question

Related to Mercurial: Merging one file between branches in one repo , I\'m trying to perform a backout operation on a single file, even though that file was one of many particip

Answer 1

Use the revert command.

hg revert -r1 file

This should revert the contents of file to the version in revision 1. You can then further edit it and commit as normal.