setup repo

  $ hg init t

  $ cd t

  $ echo a > a

  $ hg commit -Am'add a'

  adding a

  $ hg verify

  checking changesets

  checking manifests

  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests

  checking files

  1 files, 1 changesets, 1 total revisions

  $ hg parents

  changeset:   0:1f0dee641bb7

  tag:         tip

  user:        test

  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000

  summary:     add a

rollback to null revision

  $ hg status

  $ hg rollback

  repository tip rolled back to revision -1 (undo commit)

  working directory now based on revision -1

  $ hg verify

  checking changesets

  checking manifests

  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests

  checking files

  0 files, 0 changesets, 0 total revisions

  $ hg parents

  $ hg status

  A a

Two changesets this time so we rollback to a real changeset

  $ hg commit -m'add a again'

  $ echo a >> a

  $ hg commit -m'modify a'

Test issue 902 (current branch is preserved)

  $ hg branch test

  marked working directory as branch test

  $ hg rollback

  repository tip rolled back to revision 0 (undo commit)

  working directory now based on revision 0

  $ hg branch

  default

Test issue 1635 (commit message saved)

  $ cat .hg/last-message.txt ; echo

  modify a

Test rollback of hg before issue 902 was fixed

  $ hg commit -m "test3"

  $ hg branch test

  marked working directory as branch test

  $ rm .hg/undo.branch

  $ hg rollback

  repository tip rolled back to revision 0 (undo commit)

  named branch could not be reset: current branch is still 'test'

  working directory now based on revision 0

  $ hg branch

  test

working dir unaffected by rollback: do not restore dirstate et. al.

  $ hg log --template '{rev}  {branch}  {desc|firstline}\n'

  0  default  add a again

  $ hg status

  M a

  $ hg bookmark foo

  $ hg commit -m'modify a again'

  $ echo b > b

  $ hg commit -Am'add b'

  adding b

  $ hg log --template '{rev}  {branch}  {desc|firstline}\n'

  2  test  add b

  1  test  modify a again

  0  default  add a again

  $ hg update default

  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ hg bookmark bar

  $ cat .hg/undo.branch ; echo

  test

  repository tip rolled back to revision 1 (undo commit)

  $ hg id -n

  0

  $ hg branch

  default

  $ cat .hg/bookmarks.current ; echo

  bar

  $ hg bookmark --delete foo

rollback by pretxncommit saves commit message (issue 1635)

  $ echo a >> a

  $ hg --config hooks.pretxncommit=false commit -m"precious commit message"

  transaction abort!

  rollback completed

  abort: pretxncommit hook exited with status * (glob)

  [255]

  $ cat .hg/last-message.txt ; echo

  precious commit message

same thing, but run $EDITOR

  $ cat > editor << '__EOF__'

  > #!/bin/sh

  > echo "another precious commit message" > "$1"

  > __EOF__

  $ chmod +x editor

  $ HGEDITOR="'`pwd`'"/editor hg --config hooks.pretxncommit=false commit 2>&1

  transaction abort!

  rollback completed

  note: commit message saved in .hg/last-message.txt

  abort: pretxncommit hook exited with status * (glob)

  [255]

  $ cat .hg/last-message.txt

  another precious commit message

test rollback on served repository

  $ hg commit -m "precious commit message"

  $ hg serve -p $HGPORT -d --pid-file=hg.pid -A access.log -E errors.log

  $ cat hg.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS

  $ cd ..

  $ hg clone http://localhost:$HGPORT u

  requesting all changes

  adding changesets

  adding manifests

  adding file changes

  added 3 changesets with 2 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)

  updating to branch default

  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ cd u

  $ hg id default

  068774709090

now rollback and observe that 'hg serve' reloads the repository and

presents the correct tip changeset:

  $ hg -R ../t rollback

  repository tip rolled back to revision 1 (undo commit)

  working directory now based on revision 0

  $ hg id default

  791dd2169706