Mercurial：删除单个非标题变更集

Question

How do I remove a single changeset (which is not a head) from a repository?

• hg strip doesn't work because I don't wanna remove the descendants.
• hg rebase on a head and then hg strip would work, but I can't rebase on a descendent. (that yields an error)

My changeset is not related to anything else (it's just a bunch of file adds I shouldn't have made), so it should be easy to remove without problems. Also, my repository in fact has a linear history (each changeset only has one child and in particular, there's only one head).

Background

I'm using hgsubversion and either it or my SVN server crash when I try to push a commit that touches any file that has umlauts in its name. I accidentally added such a file and then did some other work on top of it. Now the offending commit needs to be removed.

Answer 1

As ngoldbaum implied in a comment , strip removes descendants , not ancestors. If there are no descendants you're OK. (Watch out, though: descendants in another branch will be stripped!)

If your issue is that the commit has descendants, you can still use hg histedit to remove it while keeping its descendants.