[PATCH] rollback: add reference to "hg commit --amend"

Martin Geisler martin at geisler.net
Wed Jul 17 03:53:10 CDT 2013


# HG changeset patch
# User Martin Geisler <martin at geisler.net>
# Date 1374050974 -7200
#      Wed Jul 17 10:49:34 2013 +0200
# Node ID 85d4ebb3d89e29657c4d7365174d9120ba88ad34
# Parent  ea4342d0e6fea19c8c4b7651f36929cd682afae7
rollback: add reference to "hg commit --amend"

Now that rollback is deprecated (yay!) users might need a pointer to
the alternative for 99% of the cases where I used rollback.

diff --git a/mercurial/commands.py b/mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py
@@ -5016,6 +5016,9 @@
 def rollback(ui, repo, **opts):
     """roll back the last transaction (DANGEROUS) (DEPRECATED)
 
+    Please use :hg:`commit --amend` instead of rollback to correct
+    mistakes in the last commit.
+
     This command should be used with care. There is only one level of
     rollback, and there is no way to undo a rollback. It will also
     restore the dirstate at the time of the last transaction, losing


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