Backing out a changeset that is before a named branch branchpoint was
making the reverse changeset the tip of the old branch, which is wrong
and very confusing. So instead, we put it on the current named branch.
Currently, backout is creating a backout revision as a child node of the
backed out node and will leave you at this new head. This has several
drawbacks:
* this changes the current head
* when there is a long history between the backed out node and the
current head, this will generate a huge number of diffs that are scary
at first sight, and not very natural to review before commit.
The change consists to switch back to the original node as soon as the
backout node (which becomes the new tip) has been created. Then the
--merge option can just merge this new tip in the current node.
* the current head/node is not changed from the user's point of view
* even without using the --merge option, the backout revision is still
easy to locate, as this is the tip
* the merge is much more intuitive as diffs of the merge is right you
are looking to backout
This makes its default behaviour useful again (issue108), and
changes it search the entire repository by default (instead
of just the cwd), just like all other commands.
It also hides issue204 by default, but you'll still see the
same behaviour if you give it a relpath: pattern.
(including small changes to revert and backout to not show these stats
with the exception of backout --merge)
Show update stats (unless -q), e.g.:
K files updated, L files merged, M files removed, N files unresolved
Inform the user what to do after a merge:
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
Inform the user what to do if a branch merge failed:
There are unresolved merges, you can redo the full merge using:
hg update -C X
hg merge Y
Inform the user what to do if a working directory merge failed:
There are unresolved merges with locally modified files.