Mercurial, revert files to a past revision by wildcard?

Question

hg revert -r 4 -I *.aspx

isn't working for me. Any help? And no, I don't want to use TortoiseHG.

Unbent

Answer 1

Try hg revert -r 4 -I **/*.aspx from the root directory of the repository. The **.aspx matches any file in any subdirectory in the repository whereas *.aspx only matches them in the current directory.

See hg help patterns for more information, which I've just noticed shows a regexp-based alternative:

  hg revert re:.*\.aspx$

Zoarah

@niall hg revert -r 4 re:.*\.aspx$ did it thanks. I'll be marking this as the answer. All the best! Question, why did the other not work – Unbent

@jonathan: did some experimentation and you need to run the command from the repo's root. – Zoarah

@niall I ran all of the commands from the root. I am using an older version of hg though. version 1.5.1. Could that be the problem? – Unbent