HG: Undo a commit from history

Question

I have a HG repository with revs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

When I committed rev 4, I unknowingly botched some changes in rev3 that I should not have. I did not notice th

Answer 1

You want hg backout

Revert/undo the effect of an earlier changeset...

Backout works by applying a changeset that's the opposite of the changeset to be backed out. That new changeset is committed to the repository, and eventually merged...