Options for undoing / reverting earlier commit

[Georges Racinet]

Hi,

On 10/10/24 09:58, Simon Harrison wrote:
> Let's say I have a repo with 100 commits.
>
> For some reason I'm not happy with r50 and would like to remove *some*
> of the changes that are in that revision, but keep all following
> commits. What are my options to achieve this? I've been looking at
> "revert" and "backout" but unless I'm mistaken, they don't offer an
> interactive option (and may not be designed for this use case).

`hg revert` does have the `-i` (interactive) option. I use it every day 
and that is what I would use in your scenario. If the changes are big, I 
tend to use it several times, focusing it with explicit paths.

Best,


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