--- a/mercurial/commands.py Tue Jun 07 14:51:18 2011 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py Tue Jun 07 14:54:17 2011 -0500
@@ -4098,10 +4098,11 @@
state and unschedules adds, removes, copies, and renames.
Using the -r/--rev or -d/--date options, revert the given files or
- directories to their contents as of a specific revision. This can
- be helpful to "roll back" some or all of an earlier change.
- Because revert does not change the working directory parents, this
- will cause these files to appear modified.
+ directories to their contents as of a specific revision. Because
+ revert does not change the working directory parents, this will
+ cause these files to appear modified. This can be helpful to "back
+ out" some or all of an earlier change.
+
If names are given, all files matching the names are reverted.
If no arguments are given, no files are reverted.