Mercurial: how do I revert to a particular revision?

Question

I\'m working on a live server. I\'ve updated to tip and it\'s caused problems: I need to revert back to a particular changeset (388) where things were OK.

I have no chan

Answer 1

I don't think it is really clear what you want but my interpretation would be hg update -C -rev 388 but you could equally well be after revert, or possibly (unlikely) even rollback. my answer to this question gives a good difference between update and revert

you really need to work out what you want to see in the working copy AND what you want the state of the history to be like to choose between them

Answer 2

Just use the command below, to get to a revision.

hg revert -r REV

It's conflicting with --all.

To kill all local changes, --all should work.

hg revert --all

Don't use rollback. It's a irreversible procedure, so should be used with care.

EDIT

You can update with --clean option. That will discard any uncommitted change. And then update to some changeset.

Answer 3

server:
- ..
- rev 386
- rev 387
- rev 388
- rev 389

clone to production

-- testing stuff, it doesn't work!
-- panic!
-- rev 390 (in panic)
-- rev 391 (in panic)
-- cool down, thinking, need to go back to 388
-- one way: hg update -C -rev 388 (to keep 390, 391)
-- other way: rm -rf dir (to discard 390, 391)
-- hg clone http://server/hg
-- cd dir
-- hg update 388 
-- testing, now works

There is also a wonderful Purge extension. Very solid stuff, it deletes all untracked files from working directory.