Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> [Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:19:05 -0500] rev 14542
revert: drop requirement to use -r to revert with two parents
This reduces documentation confusion between the need to:
a) hg revert -a -r . (drop all changes from a merge)
b) hg up -C . (drop the second parent entirely)
Currently revert is one of two commands (the other being tag) that
still complains about uncommitted merges, dating from its former use
of a generic defaultrev function that aborted.
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> [Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:18:39 -0500] rev 14541
revert: simplify usage note
This points people looking for other commands to the right place with
a minimum of verbiage.
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> [Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:38:32 -0500] rev 14540
revert: rewrite help summary
New users have a tendency to mistake 'revert' as the command to use to
check out old revisions. They also occasionally mistake revert for a
generalized undo (compare rollback).
This version intentionally aims to avoid mentioning 'earlier' and thus
intentionally no longer alludes to the (secondary) -r behavior (which
in fact is not actually limited to 'earlier').
Instead, we mention checkout state, to convey that we can
restore things to the way they were when checked out.