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

I'd install Tortoise Hg (a free GUI for Mercurial) and use that. You can then just right-click on a revision you might want to return to - with all the commit messages there in front of your eyes - and 'Revert all files'. Makes it intuitive and easy to roll backwards and forwards between versions of a fileset, which can be really useful if you are looking to establish when a problem first appeared.