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hg backout [OPTION]... [-r] REV

reverse effect of earlier changeset

    Prepare a new changeset with the effect of REV undone in the
    current working directory. If no conflicts were encountered,
    it will be committed immediately.

    If REV is the parent of the working directory, then this new changeset
    is committed automatically (unless --no-commit is specified).

    .. note::

       :hg:`backout` cannot be used to fix either an unwanted or
       incorrect merge.

    .. container:: verbose

      Examples:

      - Reverse the effect of the parent of the working directory.
        This backout will be committed immediately::

          hg backout -r .

      - Reverse the effect of previous bad revision 23::

          hg backout -r 23

      - Reverse the effect of previous bad revision 23 and
        leave changes uncommitted::

          hg backout -r 23 --no-commit
          hg commit -m "Backout revision 23"

      By default, the pending changeset will have one parent,
      maintaining a linear history. With --merge, the pending
      changeset will instead have two parents: the old parent of the
      working directory and a new child of REV that simply undoes REV.

      Before version 1.7, the behavior without --merge was equivalent
      to specifying --merge followed by :hg:`update --clean .` to
      cancel the merge and leave the child of REV as a head to be
      merged separately.

    See :hg:`help dates` for a list of formats valid for -d/--date.

    See :hg:`help revert` for a way to restore files to the state
    of another revision.

    Returns 0 on success, 1 if nothing to backout or there are unresolved
    files.
    

options ([+] can be repeated):

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    --merge               merge with old dirstate parent after backout        
    --commit              commit if no conflicts were encountered (DEPRECATED)
    --no-commit           do not commit                                       
    --parent REV          parent to choose when backing out merge (DEPRECATED)
 -r --rev REV             revision to backout                                 
 -e --edit                invoke editor on commit messages                    
 -t --tool TOOL           specify merge tool                                  
 -I --include PATTERN [+] include names matching the given patterns           
 -X --exclude PATTERN [+] exclude names matching the given patterns           
 -m --message TEXT        use text as commit message                          
 -l --logfile FILE        read commit message from file                       
 -d --date DATE           record the specified date as commit date            
 -u --user USER           record the specified user as committer              
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global options ([+] can be repeated):

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 -R --repository REPO   repository root directory or name of overlay bundle file          
    --cwd DIR           change working directory                                          
 -y --noninteractive    do not prompt, automatically pick the first choice for all prompts
 -q --quiet             suppress output                                                   
 -v --verbose           enable additional output                                          
    --color TYPE        when to colorize (boolean, always, auto, never, or debug)         
    --config CONFIG [+] set/override config option (use 'section.name=value')             
    --debug             enable debugging output                                           
    --debugger          start debugger                                                    
    --encoding ENCODE   set the charset encoding (default: ascii)                         
    --encodingmode MODE set the charset encoding mode (default: strict)                   
    --traceback         always print a traceback on exception                             
    --time              time how long the command takes                                   
    --profile           print command execution profile                                   
    --version           output version information and exit                               
 -h --help              display help and exit                                             
    --hidden            consider hidden changesets                                        
    --pager TYPE        when to paginate (boolean, always, auto, or never) (default: auto)
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