Mercurial — revert back to old version and continue from there

Question

I\'m using Mercurial locally for a project (it\'s the only repo there\'s no pushing/pulling to/from anywhere else).

To date it\'s got a linear history. However, the

Answer 1

The answers above were most useful and I learned a lot. However, for my needs the succinct answer is:

hg revert --all --rev ${1}

hg commit -m "Restoring branch ${1} as default"

where ${1} is the number of the revision or the name of the branch. These two lines are actually part of a bash script, but they work fine on their own if you want to do it manually.

This is useful if you need to add a hot fix to a release branch, but need to build from default (until we get our CI tools right and able to build from branches and later do away with release branches as well).