Reverting Dirty Files
posted by Ryan Wilcox on November 30, 2009
So you have a change you don’t want to keep. Example:
$ hg status
M fileone.txt
M filetwo.txt
Upon reviewing your changes you find out that filetwo.txt is junk you want
to get rid of. You could go into the file and manually remove your changes,
but Mercurial gives you a better tool for this: hg revert
$ hg revert filetwo.txt
If you have many files that have changes (for example, you want to throw away
all your work and start again), use the --all command:
$ hg revert --all
reverting fileone.txt
reverting filetwo.txt
This works like the git reset --hard HEAD^ command, for those of you
familiar with git.