--- a/mercurial/commands.py Wed Nov 25 06:10:54 2015 +0000
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py Fri Oct 02 07:48:23 2015 +0200
@@ -486,6 +486,23 @@
.. container:: verbose
+ Examples:
+
+ - Reverse the effect of the parent of the working directory.
+ This backout will be committed immediately::
+
+ hg backout -r .
+
+ - Reverse the effect of previous bad revision 23::
+
+ hg backout -r 23
+ hg commit -m "Backout revision 23"
+
+ - Reverse the effect of previous bad revision 23 and
+ commit the backout immediately::
+
+ hg backout -r 23 --commit
+
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