Revert, then commit, then revert again

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 12:37 -0600, Samuel Sumner wrote:
> So I was working on a project in C++ that we had source controlled in
> Mercurial. I eventually had made so many mistakes on the last revision,
> that I wasn't getting anywhere so I reverted:
> 
> hg update -r 23

Please note that in Mercurial jargon, 'revert' does NOT mean "update to
an earlier revision".  The revert command does something related but
significantly different.

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