How to revert a Mercurial hg pull?

Question

If you do an hg pull and then an hg update (or an hg merge), is there a way to back this out? Ie: revert your repository to the state pri

Answer 1

hg strip will remove revisions from a repository. Like all powerful commands, its dangerous, so be careful.

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/StripExtension

Also see:

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/EditingHistory

If you catch your mistake immediately (or reasonably soon), you can just use hg strip REV to roll back the latest (one or more) changes. ...