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Asked: 2026-06-13T04:50:28+00:00

I’ve just found out that someone committed some time ago some changes locally, that

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I’ve just found out that someone committed some time ago some changes locally, that was revision #410, now the right version is #638… that created a branch in that person’s mercurial history, and I want to get rid of it… I tried to execute an Undo > Backout… but it won’t let me…

The error message I got is:

error message

That person’s Mercurial history:

Branch that was never pushed

What can I do to get rid of that branch? The changes that it was supposed to do were already made some revisions ago…

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  1. Editorial Team

    That error appears to be because you are on a different branch then the following will probably work:

    hg up -r 410
hg backout -r 410
hg merge
hg commit

    However, this will add an irrelevant changeset and a merge that you don’t care about. You could simply do this, instead:

    hg clone -r tip repo repo1      # This should strip the unwanted changeset
cp repo/.hg/hgrc repo1/.hg/hgrc # This will copy any repo customizations
rm -rf repo                     # Delete original repo
mv repo1 repo                   # Replace original repo

    The above commands are Unix/Linux commands and it appears you might be on Windows. If you are, just replace the commands with the Windows equivalent. If you don’t understand, I can edit my answer.

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