hg rollback option wanted

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:43:53AM -0800, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> I did a commit: whoops, I accidentally got stuff into it that doesn't
> belong. If I notice while I'm editing the commit message, I can kill
> the editor and do hg recover, but let's say I used -m, and so I noticed
> the problem after the commit successfully finished.

If you simply exit the editor with no message, or otherwise cause it
to return a non-zero code, it will cleanly abort the commit with no
need to run recover.
 
> hg rollback doesn't quite do the trick. I want an option to leave the
> dirstate alone, to return to the same state the repo was in before the
> commit.

Well commit saves a backup of the dirstate before the commit, and rollback
restores it, so your query is puzzling.

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