--- a/mercurial/commands.py Tue Jun 07 14:18:39 2011 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py Tue Jun 07 14:19:05 2011 -0500
@@ -4093,11 +4093,9 @@
To cancel a merge (and lose your changes), use :hg:`update --clean .`.
With no revision specified, revert the named files or directories
- to the contents they had in the parent of the working directory.
+ to the contents they had in the first parent of the working directory.
This restores the contents of the affected files to an unmodified
- state and unschedules adds, removes, copies, and renames. If the
- working directory has two parents, you must explicitly specify a
- revision.
+ state and unschedules adds, removes, copies, and renames.
Using the -r/--rev option, revert the given files or directories
to their contents as of a specific revision. This can be helpful
@@ -4129,13 +4127,10 @@
opts["rev"] = cmdutil.finddate(ui, repo, opts["date"])
parent, p2 = repo.dirstate.parents()
- if not opts.get('rev') and p2 != nullid:
- raise util.Abort(_('uncommitted merge - '
- 'use "hg update", see "hg help revert"'))
if not pats and not opts.get('all'):
- raise util.Abort(_('no files or directories specified; '
- 'use --all to revert the whole repo'))
+ raise util.Abort(_('no files or directories specified'),
+ hint=_('use --all to revert all files'))
ctx = scmutil.revsingle(repo, opts.get('rev'))
node = ctx.node()