[issue1380] Merging polarised branches the wrong direction creates almost impossible to repair codebase

[Kent Fredric]

New submission from Kent Fredric <kentfredric at gmail.com>:

I wrote most the writeup here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/265944/backing-out-a-backwards-merge-on-mercurial

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title: Merging polarised branches the wrong direction creates almost impossible to repair codebase

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