Undo an hg push (backout?)

hg rollback reverts the last transaction, so you’d be left with unfinished merge, which you have to use hg update -C to get out.

If you don’t want *b (you have it in another clone), then enable the built-in MQ extension and run hg strip -r <*b>. It will get rid of *b and *merge. By default it saves a backup in case you change your mind again.


UPDATE (per @Rudi’s comment: sorry I missed the “already pushed” part)

Since the merge is already pushed out, NEVER EVER do what I suggested earlier. Hate emails from fellow developers would have been the best outcome.

Do this instead:

hg up -r<*merge>
hg revert -r<*a> -a
hg ci -m "undo unintended merge"

Or you could be more kosher:

hg up -r<*merge>
hg backout -r<*merge> --parent<*a>

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