How to undo an hg merge? (I think.)

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Published on 2010-04-03T02:58:42Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 3:03 UTC
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I'm new to collaborating with Mercurial. My situation:

  • Another programmer changed rev 1 of a file to replace 4-space indents with 2-space indent. (I.e. changed every line.) Call that rev 2, pushed to the remote repo.
  • I've committed substantive changes rev 1 with various code changes in my local workspace. Call that rev 3.
  • I've hg pulled and hg mergeed without a clear idea of what was going on.
  • The conflicts are myriad and not really substantive.

So I really wish I'd changed my local repo to 2-space indents before merging; then the merge will be trivial (i'm supposing). But I can't seem to back up. I think I need to hg update -r 3 but it says abort: outstanding uncommitted merges.

How can I undo the merge, changes spacing in my local repo, and remerge?

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