I just made a commit that I want to reverse, but I want to keep the bad commit in history. So, I hg update to the previous (good) commit. Then I keep working.
This leaves me with a new head: the abandoned bad commit.
Is this bad practice? What’s the best way to keep bad commits in history while not using them?
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If you don’t want the branch you don’t have to have it, use hg revert.
using revert will still keep the bad commit in history, it will create a new commit that undoes the changes from the bad commit.
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If you want to keep track of the mistake in the history you want to use backout. The backout command will create a new commit that cancel the previous one. You can even document why original commit is a mistake.
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